FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Marriage and Divorce
TAGGED WITH:: abusive husband
/by sufyanAnswered by Ustadha Raidah Shah Idil Question: Assalam aleykum, I am a mother of small children, feel very suicidal and am self-harming. My husband has been unfaithful to me for many years, refuses to change his ways, leave the house, get a job, or accept help from my family. His family doesn’t want him either […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Marriage and Divorce
TAGGED WITH:: abusive, husband, prayer
/by sufyanAnswered by Ustadha Raidah Shah Idil Question: Assalam aleykum, My husband used to pray and go for jumu’ah, but now he doesn’t pray at all. He says he is mad at Allah for all the suffering in the world, and why should he pray to a God who is supposed to be merciful, but let […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Marriage and Divorce
TAGGED WITH:: ill-conduct, nushuz
/by sufyanAnswered by Ustadh Tabraze Azam Question: Assalam alaykum How can we equate Nushuz (ill-conduct) on the part of the wife with that of the husband as mentioned in 4:34 and 4:128. Most scholars have understood Nushuz to mean marital discord. So here’s my grievance, why would the wife be disciplined by the husband when she […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Marriage and Divorce
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/by sufyanAnswered by Ustadha Raidah Shah Idil Question: Assalam aleykum, I fell in love with a married man. He confided in me about how he has not had marital intimacy with his wife since the birth of his two year old son. She is rude to him, his parents, and has many other bad character traits. […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Marriage and Divorce, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: divorce, divorce in jest, not intending divorce, thoughtlessness, utterance of divorce
/by YusufUstadh Tabraze Azam is asked if saying one is divorced in jest or thoughtlessness to others in conversation or chat counts as a legal divorce. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. If one says words like “I am divorced” or “I got divorced” (not the exact wording as it happened a long […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Family Ties, ANS Marriage and Divorce, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: amend relationships, excellence towards parents, family relations, maintaining family ties, marriage, marriage and parents
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil advises on mending relations with estranged parents and marrying with their blessing. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. My parents got divorced when I was 3 and I ended up with my father who raised me. I didn’t see my mother for almost 19 years, until I finally […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Marriage and Divorce, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: co-wife, divorce, marriage, rights of a wife, second wife, unfaithful spouse
/by YusufUstadh Farid Dingle untangles the difficulties a wife faces when her husband who works overseas decides to marry a second wife but wishes to divorce his first on no grounds. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I am married for six years. I have two kids. My son is five years old and […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Children, ANS Marriage and Divorce, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog)
TAGGED WITH:: divorce, intending divorce, neglect of spouse, rights of a spouse, rights of a wife
/by YusufUstadha Raidah Shah Idil is asked if it is permissible to divorce a spouse who consistently refuse to help with childcare and household chores. Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. My husband and I have been having arguments on and off for the past few years. My husband doesn’t help me with […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Halal and Haram, ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Maliki Fiqh, ANS Marriage, ANS Marriage and Divorce, ANS Marriage and Divorce (maliki-fiqh), ANS Marriage and Divorce (shafii-fiqh), ANS Shafi'i Fiqh, ANS Sunna, ANSWERS (Parent of ANS blog), Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong, Knowledge
TAGGED WITH:: conjugal rights, Marital Intimacy, marital problems, marital relations, neglect of spouse
/by YusufShaykh Jamir Meah clarifies certain aspects of a previous answer on a wife’s conjugal rights. I am writing to inquire a further look at this portion from a previous answer: What Does Islam Say About the Neglect of the Wife’s Sexual Rights? Islam already takes into account the fact that a woman may have times […]
FILED UNDER: ANS Adab, ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Marriage, ANS Marriage and Divorce, Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong
TAGGED WITH:: divorce, divorce in anger, doubts about divorce, intending divorce, utterance of divorce, valid divorce
/by YusufShaykh Abdurragmaan Khan untangles doubts about a divorce pronounced in anger. I have issued my wife with Talaq three times during a single incident. This was following an argument where I became so angry that I wanted to strangle her but instead I picked up the kettle and swung it, dropping all the water and […]
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