Nikah halala is one of the most bizarre and revolting aspects of Islamic law. It is a temporary marriage that allows a woman to return to her previous husband after a divorce. If her husband says “I divorce you” to her three times, she can’t return to him unless and until she marries another man, consummates the marriage, and is in turn divorced by the new husband. This is based on the Qur’an. Allah’s regulations for divorce emphasize regarding women that “men have a degree over them” (Qur’an 2:228). This may be why men can divorce their wives simply by saying, “Talaq” — You are divorced, or I divorce you. Such an easy procedure leads to divorces in a fit of pique, followed by reconciliation — and the Qur’an anticipates this and attempts to head it off by stipulating that a husband who divorces his wife three times cannot reconcile with her until she marries another man and is in turn divorced by him: “And if he has divorced her [for the third time], then she is not lawful to him afterward until she marries a husband other than him” (Qur’an 2:230).
Polygamy is based on Qur’an 4:3: “And if you fear that you will not deal justly with the orphan girls, then marry those that please you of women, two or three or four. But if you fear that you will not be just, then one, or those your right hand possesses. That is more suitable that you may not incline.”
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board is calling on the Supreme Court of India to recognize that ironclad principle: wherever Islamic law and secular law conflict, it is secular law that must give way. In Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic mores. In non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Islamic mores.
“Don’t Allow People from Other Faiths to Question Muslim Law: AIMPLB to SC on Nikah Halala Challenge,” by Utkarsh Anand, News18, January 27, 2020:
New Delhi: All India Muslim Personal Law Board has submitted in the Supreme Court that religious practices of one faith should not be allowed to be questioned by someone from a different faith.
The registered society comprising Ulemas (scholars) has added that even otherwise, nobody should be permitted to question issues of faith unless they threaten life and liberty of anyone.
About the Uniform Civil Code, the Board has said that Article 44 in the Constitution, which talked about having a common law for the entire country, was “only a directive principle of state policy and is not enforceable”.
The application moved in the top court has emphasised that the ‘Mohammedan Law is based on Holy Quran and Hadith’ and its validity can’t be tested on a challenge based on fundamental rights.
The plea has been filed by the Board to oppose a PIL that challenged the validity of practises of polygamy and nikah halala among Muslims.
While the petition by advocate and BJP member Ashwini Upadhyay has claimed such practices violate Muslim women’s right to live with dignity and their privacy, the Muslim Law Personal Law Board has now claimed these practices may not fall under the purview of the “law in force” and are hence beyond the purview of judicial review….
Walter Sieruk says
As the information revealed in this site which reads “All India Muslim Personal Law Board has submitted in the Supreme Court that religious practices of one faith should not be allowed to be questioned by someone from a different faith.”
This of course involves to specific subject pf polygamy which is allowed for Muslim man because it’s based on the Qur ‘an. As in Surah 4:3.
According to this Muslim “law board” since male Muslim polygamy has its foundation on the Qur’an no-Muslims have not right to question or criticize this practice
This Muslim law board has been greatly overruled by Jesus Who declared “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife…” Jesus said “wife.” Not “wives” Mathew 19:5. [K.J.V.] Likewise, in First Timothy 3:2. In instructs “A bishop the must be blameless, the husband on one wife.” Here again it’s “one wife.” In the Old Testament , in Genesis, God gave Adam one wife
Nevertheless, there are some people who will act as apologists for polygamy by say the king David of Israel and then later his son ,who became King Solomon of Israel did practice polygamy. Such people aren’t taking into account both the time and place. For the only reason that God did tolerate this tradition was not because it was right or that He approved of it. It was because this practice of having many wives was such an entrenched custom in the ancient Middle East that God allowed it for the above mentioned Kings of Israel. This does not mean that this custom, of polygamy, was to keep on going in other times and places.
In conclusion Polygamy is not sanctioned by God. Islam is wrong
Rueben_Singh says
They don’t want other religious groups to “question” their faith, but they don’t mind people of other faiths having to pay for the results of their perversions.
Mural says
+1.
Walter Sieruk says
To Rueben Singh , you are 100% right when you keyboarded that “They don’t want other religious groups to ‘question’ their faith…”
This is because Islam is actually such a weak and fragile religion that is can’t hold up or stand up to criticism of any kind, no matter how mild that criticism might be.
SKA says
Actually polygamy of David and Solomon contrary to Torah:
Deuteronomy 16Deuteronomy 18
Deuteronomy 17:17-19 King James Version (KJV)
17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
somehistory says
It is amazing that any person not adhering to this filth can ever be arrogant…because moslims are so full of arrogance, there should be none left for anyone else to possess.
It “can’t be challenged.”….so they say. Everyone not belonging to this cult from satan with its filthy unlawfulness, should challenge it and in any public way they are able.
Merri-joy says
Islamic Law can & should be challenged! The Laws & Commandments of the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob are above Islamic law! Sharia law is a man’s made up law!
The Government of India has responsibility to protect it’s citizens from wicked medieval pagan practices!
Mural says
I think any law which does not adhere to secular, humane values should be junked.
Both Sharia law and laws of God of abraham are man-made. To claim otherwise would be delusion.
gravenimage says
India: Islamic scholars say polygamy and nikah halala based on Qur’an and Hadith, non-Muslims can’t challenge them
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Why the hell not? Decent Infidels have the right to challenge any of the savagery of Islam.
jca reid says
Rabid, feral deviants trying to get their own perverted way! Pack them all off to Pakistan. They can build their ‘Islamic Paradise’ there! The rest of the world simply doesn’t want it, or need it! It really is a case of the lunatics taking over the Asylum!!
FYI says
infidels should read the koran and challenge it.
allah’s “perfect” book:allah says if you can find ANY errors in the koran then it cannot come from God as allah’s word is perfect {see koran 4:82 allah’s Criterion}
Who knew allah’s “perfect” book would have so “Therein much incongruity”?
{muslims should READ the koran but away from the ‘holy’ men of islam and see for themselves}
Do ants speak Arabic?
Yes
“An Ant exclaimed:O Ants! Enter your dwellings lest solomon and his armies crush you,
unperceiving.
koran 27 v 18
Was the moon split in two?
Of course it was.
“The hour drew near and the moon was rent in twain”
koran 54:1
Did Jesus have the Gospel.
Certainly.and this will come as a surprise to Biblical Scholars and Christians.
“We bestowed upon him the Gospel”
koran 5:46
The Jews famously say that “Ezra is the son of allah”
Sure they do allah,that’s exactly what the Jews say isn’t it?
koran 9:30
And who knew MARY ..was in the Trinity?
Koran 5:116
“Lo!I am the slave of allah and he hath given me the scripture and appointed me a prophet”.. said the infant baby “Jesus” whilst still in the crib…
koran 19:30
“Lo!This koran is a conclusive word” koran 86:13
But then …”Above it are nineteen” koran 74;30;nineteen what allah?{an inconclusive statement and NOBODY
in the islamic world can tell you what it means!!}
“And in truth WE have made the koran easy to understand”
koran 54:22
A shame “WE” only writes in Classical Arabic then isn’t it?
muslims hate it when infidels{or ex-muslims} see through the koran….
Battle says
Islam Moslem scholars are stupidity.
Ashley says
Nikah halala is one of the most bizarre and revolting aspects of Islamic law. It is a temporary marriage that allows a woman to return to her previous husband after a divorce. If her husband says “I divorce you” to her three times, she can’t return to him unless and until she marries another man, consummates the marriage, and is in turn divorced by the new husband. This is based on the Qur’an.
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Islam sure has some quirky mandates.
gravenimage says
I wish this sort of thing was just quirky, Ashley. This has resulted in divorced women being raped by others so that their ex-husband can remarry them. Here is just one recent story:
“India: Muslim husband divorces wife three times, she is raped by another man so husband can remarry her”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/12/india-muslim-husband-divorces-wife-three-times-she-is-raped-by-another-man-so-husband-can-remarry-her
Here’s another, involving Muslim clerics:
“India: Muslim clerics sleep with divorced women so they can return to their husbands under Islamic law”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/india-muslim-clerics-sleep-with-divorced-women-so-they-can-return-to-their-husbands-under-islamic-law
Anjuli Pandavar says
“And if he hath divorced her (the third time), then she is not lawful unto him thereafter until she hath wedded another husband. Then if he (the other husband) divorce her it is no sin for both of them …” Qur’an 2:230.
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“Revolting” is exactly the word for this Islamic practise that Muslims expect civilised laws and mores to defer to — a sentiment that is even more revolting than the practice it seeks to elevate.
What is particularly repulsive about this to-ing and fro-ing of women between different men who have to f*ck her in this law, is that nowhere in this sacred procedure does the woman, as a person, figure at all. Imagine: you love your husband. You might even have children by him. He divorces you, just like that. Now you have to decide whom you should get to f*ck you and then discard you so you *might* get your husband back. Note, the law is only about whether or not she is lawful to him (to f*ck), and not at all about whether or not she wants to be with him or wants to return to him. Muslims can say, pretend and propagandise all they like about how wonderful Islam is for women, but here, in verse 2:230, is the woman’s worth even more grotesquely on display as in some of the hadith: it is not enough that she should marry another man and divorce from him, no. He has to soil the merchandise. THAT is the deterrence for a man divorcing his wife willy-nilly. The idea that it should be as hard/easy for a man to divorce his wife as it is for her to divorce him would, of course, be unthinkable in a culture that holds the man to be the human being and the woman to be his property.
I would dearly love to see Yasr Qadhi group-think or supra-rationalise his way out of this one. Your religion is REVOLTING, Yasr Qadhi. It is repulsive. You are a man gifted with both ‘aql and education. Shame on you for touting this barbarism. Shame on you for knowingly bamboozling young people with your pseudo-intellectual claptrap. People are not leaving Islam because there is something wrong with them. STOP INSULTING THEM! People leave Islam because there is something — a lot! — wrong with Islam. And there is something wrong with you for trying to stop people from seeing that. You are part of the problem, Yasr, and it is my role to help those young people see that. I don’t care where they go after they’ve left Islam, so long as they leave Islam, so long as they leave this revolting religion with its revolting laws and its revolting treatment of women. Supra-rationalise your way out of that one! Insha-Allah.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Anjuli.