Explicit and allusive words: the ruling on “My matter with them is settled: one, two, three”

Question

After the sunna greeting. My nikah, in accordance with the noble Shari‘a, with Khatun, daughter of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Ghani, took place about seven or eight years ago, and from that time until today she has lived in my house as my wife. Because of mutual enmity and other matters, things went from bad to worse and reached the point of poisoning and of beating one another. A community council was held, after which the visits of my in-laws to my house and mine to theirs stopped, but my wife stayed with me.

Answer

In the entire text of the question, in one place the word talaq is mentioned explicitly: «ایسی عورتوں کو میری طرف سے طلاق ہے، جو میرے کہنے کے خلاف عمل کرے» (“Such women have talaq from me — whoever acts contrary to what I say”). Since (the wife) acted contrary to the husband’s word, according to the Shari‘a one revocable (raj‘i)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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