triple divorce - teen talaq
...all this brouhaha is so very understandable...we muslims may have one book and on prophet (sorry Sattar saheb;)...but we do subscribe to several Allahs...each small group of us has their own Allah...this is the only explanation one can proffer...otherwise if Allah was one...then how in Jam-the camel driver's name would these various factions and off shoots would be killing each other and dispatching them to some hell in the name of the same Allah?...
khair...on talaaq!
(...all the following is from memory...don't have my books or notes here...so if any one you wants to assign me a choice spot in hell...hopefully they will have the courtesy to afford me some good defense lawyers first)
Islam is a deen....the approache to practice this deen is called a madhab (or mazhab in urdu: plural madhaib/mazhaib)...
in the days of Muhammed (saw) there was only one deen and one madhab...understandably...the various madhaibs...and splits came later...the sunnis with their hanafis, humbalis, shafii, malikis...and the shias with ithna asharis, ismailis, khojas, bohris...and then the minor offshoots...druzes, naziris and so on...each of these groups and sub groups practice Islam their own way...naturally!...:)
so back to utterances of three talaqs:
during the lifetime of Muhammed (saw)...the overwhelming occurrences of talaqs were 'delayed' talaq...in stages...the quickie divorce was tolerated but not kindly looked upon...
...this continued for about three years after his death...( am relying on memory again)...this continued through abu bakr's caliphate and went on unchanged during omar's first or second year...somewhere around that time hazrat omar seemed it fit to change the rules!...since then...the quickie divorce came into fashion over the delayed divorce...and is continuing to this day in the mostly sunni world...
...to be fair to omar...towards the end of his caliphate he broached this subject in one of his letters and wondered aloud if he had done the right thing and also speculated aloud about the misuses of the quickie divorce and expressed a desire or hope to revert things back to the older way...but he died shortly afterwards...
khair...on talaaq!
(...all the following is from memory...don't have my books or notes here...so if any one you wants to assign me a choice spot in hell...hopefully they will have the courtesy to afford me some good defense lawyers first)
Islam is a deen....the approache to practice this deen is called a madhab (or mazhab in urdu: plural madhaib/mazhaib)...
in the days of Muhammed (saw) there was only one deen and one madhab...understandably...the various madhaibs...and splits came later...the sunnis with their hanafis, humbalis, shafii, malikis...and the shias with ithna asharis, ismailis, khojas, bohris...and then the minor offshoots...druzes, naziris and so on...each of these groups and sub groups practice Islam their own way...naturally!...:)
so back to utterances of three talaqs:
during the lifetime of Muhammed (saw)...the overwhelming occurrences of talaqs were 'delayed' talaq...in stages...the quickie divorce was tolerated but not kindly looked upon...
...this continued for about three years after his death...( am relying on memory again)...this continued through abu bakr's caliphate and went on unchanged during omar's first or second year...somewhere around that time hazrat omar seemed it fit to change the rules!...since then...the quickie divorce came into fashion over the delayed divorce...and is continuing to this day in the mostly sunni world...
...to be fair to omar...towards the end of his caliphate he broached this subject in one of his letters and wondered aloud if he had done the right thing and also speculated aloud about the misuses of the quickie divorce and expressed a desire or hope to revert things back to the older way...but he died shortly afterwards...
posted by temporal at 8/28/2005
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