Talaq by Admission of Talaq

Question

I state that Muhammad Mujtaba, known as Dhalu, was married to Shamima Bano. Then, after a period of ten or twelve years had passed in love and good relations, Muhammad Mujtaba brought his lawfully wedded wife to her home and left her there, and since then he does not come to take her back (sending the wife off to the husband’s home); rather, in front of others he says: “میں نے اس کو طلاق دیدیا” (“I have given her talaq”), and he himself has married a second time. When the girl’s uncle (her maternal aunt’s husband)

Answer

Talaq takes effect even when it is given verbally; it does not depend on being given in writing. Therefore, since the husband admits the talaq, his divorced wife has the right to marry elsewhere once an ‘idda of three menstrual periods has passed from the time of the talaq.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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