“You Are Outside My Nikah” Is Allusive Talaq

Question

Question: A man said to his wife: «تو میرے نکاح سے باہر ہے، اگر تو میرے گھر رہے گی تو تجھ کو بے نکاحی کہوں گا» (“You are outside my nikah; if you stay in my house, I will call you ‘a woman without nikah’”). He said these words in a state of anger, in reply to the wife’s words: «میں نہیں رہنا چاہتی» (“I do not want to stay”). Will these words of the husband be counted among the allusive expressions (kinayat) or as explicit (sarih) talaq?

Answer

Yes, these words are among the allusive expressions of talaq.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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