Three talaqs to a wife with whom the marriage was not consummated

Question

A man said to his minor wife with whom the marriage had not been consummated (ghayr madkhul biha): “میں تجھے ایک دو تین طلاق مغلظہ دیتا ہوں” (“I give you one, two, three talaq — mughallaza”), or else he said to that wife: “میں تجھے تین طلاق دیتا ہوں” (“I give you three talaqs”). What needs to be established now is this: in both of the above cases, will all three talaqs take effect together or not? If they will, is a nikah valid without tahlil (halala) or not?

Answer

In both cases a major (mughallaza) divorce has taken effect. In the first case, because talaq does not take effect merely by the words “one, two, three” unless the word “talaq” has been mentioned together with them; and when the word “talaq” has been mentioned, it will relate to the whole “one, two, three”, and the word “mughallaza” will be an explanatory attribute (sifa…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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