Reviewing the Answer of Imarat-e Shar‘iyya on the Words “Take Your Jawab”

Question

Question: Attached is the answer to an istifta’ (request for a fatwa) given by the Imarat-e Shar‘iyya (a Shari‘a body of the Muslims) of Bihar. Is the answer correct in accordance with the question? Since severe disagreement is arising among us over it, kindly take the trouble to answer quickly.

Answer

If the details of the disagreement were known, something could be written about it. If this word — «لو جواب» (“take your jawab”; jawab literally means “answer”, colloquially “dismissal”) — is used for talaq as well, and the husband said this word with that very intention (niyya), then one irrevocable (ba‘in)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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