A hundred talaqs

Question

Question: A man said these words to his wife: “دنیا تو ایک دفعہ طلاق دیتی ہے، اور میں سو دفعہ طلاق دیتا ہوں” (“people (lit. the world) give talaq once, and I give talaq a hundred times”). Does talaq take effect by these words, and of what kind, or not?

Answer

If he addressed his wife with these words in order to give her talaq, and these words are used for the present tense, then three talaqs have taken effect on his wife.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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