Cases and Fatwās Roundup

  • “A Pakistani court on Tuesday indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on a charge that their 2018 marriage violated the Islamic law requirement that a woman wait three months before remarriage, his lawyer said.”
  • “A housewife, Sa’adatu Ayuba, has asked a Dei-Dei Grade I Area Court [in Nigeria] for divorce after a 27-year marriage to Jalija, over impotence. The petitioner got married to Jalija by Islamic law in 1997. They are blessed with five children ages 25, 22, 14, nine and seven.”
  • The Supreme Court of India recently held that “Islam does not force on the spouses a life devoid of harmony and happiness and if the parties cannot live together, it permits a separation,” thus granting women “Khula rights” to end their marriage under specific circumstances.

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