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Muslim man told Skype divorce joke stands
Daily Telegraph | Oct 29th 2010 | Dean Nelson


A Muslim man who told his wife "I divorce thee" three times in an online Skype messenger conversation has been told the separation stands.

The ruling, made in an online fatwa by the Darul Uloom Deobandi seminary in northern India, regarded as one of Islam's leading authorities on religious law said that the woman would have to first marry another man before she could remarry her first husband.

The man, from Qatar, wrote to the seminary following his Skype joke to seek clarification.

"Jokingly typed 'talak, talak, talak' (I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee) to my wife on Skype chat. I don't understand Islam very much and did not know about how talaq works. We love each other very much and want to be together but right now [we are] caught in this thing. Want to know a way out," he wrote.

His hopes of a "way out" were dashed when the seminary issued a fatwa confirming his wife must first remarry another man, consummate the marriage, and then divorce him before she could be allowed to remarry her first husband.


"When you gave three talaqs, your wife became "haram" (forbidden) for you. Neither you have the right to take her back nor solemnise a new "nikah" (marriage) without a valid "halalah" (second marriage). After the completion of "iddah" (a three month waiting period following a divorce), the woman can marry whomever she wishes except you," the fatwa stated.

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I might be wrong--but, I think that there will be an honor killing in this mess somehow, somewhere.

Is "talak" as powerful as "beetlejuice, beetlejuice, beetlejuice?" Is Tim Burton a Muslim?

A resident of Qatar typed talaq thrice while chatting with his wife

Talaq is no joke. An e-savvy Qatar resident learnt this the hard way when he typed talaq thrice while chatting with his wife on Skype.

He says he did not mean it but Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband has ruled that his nikah stands terminated, according to a news report in an Indian paper.

That is not all. For his careless 'chat', the man can remarry his divorced wife only after halala, a practice under which the woman has to marry and divorce another man before she can marry her previous husband again, the Times of India reported on Wednesday.

http://www.emirates247.com/news/region/talaq-joke-on-skype-ends-marriage-2010-10-27-1.309789

Isn't Sharia Law great? Allah awk-barf!