Talaq of an angry and a mentally deficient (ma‘tuh) person — with the fatwa of Hazrat Mawlana Mufti Muhammad Shafi‘ ﵀

Question

Istifta (6073). Note: the questioner has sent a court stamp (stamp paper) concerning a talaq and a copy of an earlier fatwa, certified as true to the original, and asks for an answer to a further question; they are reproduced verbatim. (Muhammad Ilyas Khan, copier of the fatwa) Copy true to the original [ar]قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «كُلُّ طَلَاقٍ جَائِزٌ إِلَّا طَلَاقَ الصَّبِيِّ وَالْمَجْنُونِ»

Answer

Talaq is the most detested of permitted things (أبغض المباحات). Talaq is generally given precisely in anger, and it takes effect; in love and affection it rarely comes to that. In al-Durr al-Mukhtar and Shami, in the Book of Talaq, chapter on allusive expressions (bab al-kinayat), a table is given showing that such-and-such allusive (kinaya)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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