Question ID 934 - Divorce - 2013-12-30 17:15:01 |
Assalamualaikum. I am 34 years old and remarried, with three children, previously we were hanafi's. when i was 21 i was forced and emotionally blackmailed into marrying my cousin in Pakistan who was approx 2 years older than me. (this was a sunni marriage, as i was a sunni then) however we argued every other day and in the end i divorced her after one year. i had a child with her too who is about 12 years old now. Anyway we broke off and never contacted each other again after the divorce, it was triple talaq's done the sunni way, (which i now know was the wrong way of doing it) i still have the nikah nama from that marriage and later found out that when i was signing the nikah nama there were no demands of hers on there. but when i was married and back in the UK, i found that they had written three things on there that we had no knnowledge of, no 1- that if i divorce her i would be liable to pay her a sum. no 2- i would pay her a set amount every month. no 3- 18 tola gold is hers. i felt that they not only tricked me but they bargained their daughter to me. this infuriated me further to the fact that i did not want to get married to her as on previous occasions i had heard that she was very rude to her parents, and i did not like that. I did write to Ayatullah Sistani about 6 months ago and he replied by saying that "no burden is on me, however it would be good to raise the child to follow the ahlulbayt way" i have no contact with them and we parted in a very bad manner. i read a previous post on your website that the divorce of tripple talaq is not valid. is this correct? does this mean that i am still married to her even though i have remarried? please help this is a very big dilemma for me. Assalamualaikum |
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Answer:- The Triple Talaq is invalid for the followers of Ahlul Bayt (AS), but it
valid for those who believe in it who are most of the Sunni sects. Your
Triple Talaq took place when you were a Sunni, so, it is valid.
Wassalam.
Mohammad al-Musawi
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