Beginning Of Divorce

 

The beginning of divorce (L-293)

لِلَّذينَ يُؤلونَ مِن نِسائِهِم تَرَبُّصُ أَربَعَةِ أَشهُرٍ ۖ فَإِن فاءوا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفورٌ رَحيمٌ226.  227.  وَإِن عَزَمُوا الطَّلاقَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ سَميعٌ عَليمٌ

226.  Lillaziina  yu’-luuna  min-nisaaa-‘ihim  tarabbusu  ‘arba-‘ati  ‘ash-hur.  Fa-‘in-faaa-‘uu  fa-‘innAllaaha Gafuurur-Rahiim. 227.  Wa  ‘in  azamut-talaaqa  fa-‘innAllaaha Samii-‘un  ‘Aliim.

226. Those who vow abstinence from their wives must wait for four months. But if they reconcile—God is Forgiving and Merciful. 227. And if they resolve to divorce—God is Hearing and Knowing.

Yu’-luuna – (those who forswear), this word has been derived from ‘iilaa which means forswear. Idiomatically its aim is to swear for living separate from the wife. It was common custom in the Arabians that whenever they used to come in rage, they used to forswear for remaining separate from their wives.  

Talaaq – (divorce), according to law, disconnecting the mutual relationship entirely among husband and wife is called ‘divorce’, repudiation. Different ways of divorce were customary in the world before Islam. There was no restriction or responsibility in the matter of divorce among the Jews. Whenever any individual wished, he got rid of his wife by writing a divorce letter only. The wife could wed another husband at the same time. Comparing to this freedom, the Christians chose very difficult way. They kept no accommodation for husband and wife to be separate, except that the wife becomes guilty of fornication. The same condition is of the Indian religion. The divorce is still unlawful for them till today. On the contrary, Islam adopted the way of temperance.

It was the way of Arabians that after forswearing, which was a kind of divorce according to them, they used to set free from paying the expenditures of their wives, performing other duties and responsibilities for them. Islam corrected this rule and explained that forswearing is not equal to breaking the marriage knot, but it is only the beginning. Islam has determined length of time for meditation, consideration and period for this long time kept four months, which is quite sufficient for this purpose that the husband may think with cool heart on all aspects and this important matter of separation from his wife.

Islam has permitted with the condition that if the husband feels faithfully that if his life partner; either doesn’t cooperate with him or doesn’t fulfill his lawful desires, then he should divorce her, despite it that they pine away their entire lives and remain displeased from each other. It is better that they should be disconnected. https://youtu.be/PpQowapqxiU