As salaamualeikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu,
Inshallah I will never need to know about divorce in Islam. However, having read some of the posts in this section over the last month or two, I realize that I don't know really anything about it. I have some questions:
1. Are there grounds necessary for a man to obtain a divorce from his wife?
2. If a man divorces his wife, what rights does she have?
3. Are there grounds necessary for a woman to obtain a divorce from her husband?
4. If she does, what rights does she have?
5. What are the different names of divorce and what do they mean? I see talaq, khula and others (I think). It seems that talaq is when the man asks and khula is when the woman asks.
6. What happens if you divorce and the man doesn't want the material things you two built up together? Is it haram for the woman to keep them if he allows it? What if he changes his mind?
7. In the case of multiple wives, what is the right of a wife who is being neglected? (For the sake of discussion, let's say there is a severe difference in treatment, not a minor one.)
8. What if a woman wants her husband to marry again and he refuses?
9. If wife No. 1 contributes financially to the home due to hardship (and not because she particularly wants to), what rights does the husband have to a second wife or to property in event of divorce?
10. Similarly, if wife No. 1 consistently 'does without' to ease financial hardship, what rights does the husband have to a second wife or to property in event of divorce?
Wallahi I'm not trying to instigate fitnah but these are topics that have been on my mind and I'm curious about them.
Regarding the last 3 questions:
8 - I'm specially thinking about when wife No. 1 is infertile and she wants to see her husband have children and perhaps have the opportunity to enjoy these children (if on a limited basis) herself. Other circumstances may apply.
9&10 are my situation, where I (slightly) outearn my husband and contribute equally to our finances because he could not support the two of us alone. In addition, much of our furnishings were mine before we married.
Again, I hope I will never need to know the details of divorce, but if I am to be left penniless after contributing financially for years, I want to know so I can attempt to provide some backup for myself should the need ever arise.
Jzkhr.
Inshallah I will never need to know about divorce in Islam. However, having read some of the posts in this section over the last month or two, I realize that I don't know really anything about it. I have some questions:
1. Are there grounds necessary for a man to obtain a divorce from his wife?
2. If a man divorces his wife, what rights does she have?
3. Are there grounds necessary for a woman to obtain a divorce from her husband?
4. If she does, what rights does she have?
5. What are the different names of divorce and what do they mean? I see talaq, khula and others (I think). It seems that talaq is when the man asks and khula is when the woman asks.
6. What happens if you divorce and the man doesn't want the material things you two built up together? Is it haram for the woman to keep them if he allows it? What if he changes his mind?
7. In the case of multiple wives, what is the right of a wife who is being neglected? (For the sake of discussion, let's say there is a severe difference in treatment, not a minor one.)
8. What if a woman wants her husband to marry again and he refuses?
9. If wife No. 1 contributes financially to the home due to hardship (and not because she particularly wants to), what rights does the husband have to a second wife or to property in event of divorce?
10. Similarly, if wife No. 1 consistently 'does without' to ease financial hardship, what rights does the husband have to a second wife or to property in event of divorce?
Wallahi I'm not trying to instigate fitnah but these are topics that have been on my mind and I'm curious about them.
Regarding the last 3 questions:
8 - I'm specially thinking about when wife No. 1 is infertile and she wants to see her husband have children and perhaps have the opportunity to enjoy these children (if on a limited basis) herself. Other circumstances may apply.
9&10 are my situation, where I (slightly) outearn my husband and contribute equally to our finances because he could not support the two of us alone. In addition, much of our furnishings were mine before we married.
Again, I hope I will never need to know the details of divorce, but if I am to be left penniless after contributing financially for years, I want to know so I can attempt to provide some backup for myself should the need ever arise.
Jzkhr.
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