Talaq by the words “The relationship between me and you is over”

Question

Zayd married Hinda. Hinda found the atmosphere in her in-laws’ home extremely foul: in her in-laws’ family the ways of the veil, covering the face, modesty and bashfulness are not liked at all, and they look upon the Islamic way of life with great aversion. Moreover, Hinda’s husband and her mother-in-law and father-in-law urge Hinda towards open shamelessness, immodesty and abandoning the veil; along with shamelessness and immodesty they keep prying into Hinda’s marital relations.

Answer

If Hinda’s husband said to her with the intention of talaq: “جا آج سے میرا تیرا تعلق ختم” (“Go, from today the relationship between me and you is over”) — as is also apparent from his mention of sending the mahr — then a single irrevocable (ba’in) talaq has taken effect. After three menstrual periods (hayd)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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