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Posted by: Cinderella

Indian told to leave wife after "divorce" in sleep
Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:42 AM GMT


http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/news...A-RELIGION.XML


NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Muslim couple in India have been told by local Islamic leaders they must separate after the husband "divorced" his wife in his sleep, the Press Trust of India reported.

Sohela Ansari told friends that her husband Aftab had uttered the word "talaq", or divorce, three times in his sleep, according to the report published in newspapers on Monday.

When local Islamic leaders got to hear, they said Aftab's words constituted a divorce under an Islamic procedure known as "triple talaq". The couple, married for 11 years with three children, were told they had to split.

The religious leaders ruled that if the couple wanted to remarry they would have to wait at least 100 days. Sohela would also have to spend a night with another man and be divorced by him in turn.

The couple, who live in the eastern state of West Bengal, have refused to obey the order and the issue has been referred to a local family counselling centre.

India's minority Muslim population is governed by Islamic personal laws on issues such as marriage, divorce and property inheritance.

"This is a totally unnecessary controversy and the local 'community leaders' or whosoever has said it are totally ignorant of Islamic law," said Zafarul-Islam Khan, an Islamic scholar and editor of The Milli Gazette, a popular Muslim newspaper.

"The law clearly says any action under compulsion or in a state of intoxication has no effect. The case of someone uttering something while asleep falls under this category and will have no impact whatsoever," Khan told Reuters




lmao @ have to spend a night with another man and be divorced by him in turn.

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Posted by: kttref

Wow...that's f'n crazy! Makes me glad I don't live there!

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Posted by: RPD931

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Originally Posted by kttref Wow...that's f'n crazy! Makes me glad I don't live there!

Why, what do you say in your sleep?..

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Posted by: EOD1

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Originally Posted by RPD931 Why, what do you say in your sleep?..

oohhh can i guess!!!

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Posted by: mtc

Counting the thousands and thousands that would have saved me........ Damn!

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Posted by: MSP75

Maybe the muslims are on to something.

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Posted by: 94c

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Originally Posted by MSP75 Maybe the muslims are on to something.

talaq......talaq........talaq..................... .

DAMN, she's still in the kitchen.

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Posted by: Cinderella

lmao

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Posted by: MSP75

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Originally Posted by 94c talaq......talaq........talaq..................... . DAMN, she's still in the kitchen.

Say it while you are "sleeping". Record it.

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Posted by: kttref

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Originally Posted by EOD1 oohhh can i guess!!!

You can guess but you won't get it...Rumor has I don't speak I "mumble" or "moan"

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Posted by: USMCMP5811

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Originally Posted by kttref You can guess but you won't get it...Rumor has I don't speak I "mumble" or "moan"

I'm not even going to touch that one.....yet

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Posted by: kttref

haha

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Posted by: RPD931

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Originally Posted by 94c talaq......talaq........talaq..................... . DAMN, she's still in the kitchen.

That made me cry from laughter. Nice one 94c!

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