Nikah after three talaqs

Question

Question: A man says these words to his wife three or four times: “تجھ کو میں طلاق دیتا ہوں، میں تجھ کو نہیں رکھتا، اگر رکھوں تو ماں بہن کر کے رکھوں” (“I give you talaq; I do not keep you; and if I keep you, I will keep you as a mother and sister”). Which talaq has befallen his wife after saying these words, and if the man then wants to marry her again, what is the way? Kindly write with evidence.

Answer

Pronouncing talaq three times in explicit (sarih) words makes the divorce major (mughallaza). If he then wants to marry her, the way is this: the woman, after completing her ‘idda, marries another man properly according to the Shari‘a, and that man has intercourse with her, then divorces her or dies, then the woman completes her ‘idda — only then will this woman’s nikah with…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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