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the two partners. So, it is possible that a couple may resume their
normal life and forget their conflict after
I passing this difficult
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time. There is a tradition that Ibn Umar reported, he divorced his
wife while she was menstruating during the life time of the Prophet.
Where - upon. Allah's Messenger said. "Command him to take her back
(and keep her) and pronounce divorce when she is purified and she again
enters the period of menstruation and she is again purified (after
passing the period of menses), and then if he so desires, he may keer
her and if he desires, divorce her (finally) before touching her
(without having intercourse with her), for that is the period of
waiting (idda) which God (Exalted and Glorious be He 1) has
commanded for the divorce of a woman.
The husband must not divorce his wife while she is in purity
immediately after menstruation has finished) if he approached her,
but he must wait and keep his wife until she has menstruated, completes
it without any intercourse and goes through a secondly monthly period
to a second state of purity. At this stage, if no change of heart or
mind has taken place, a divorce may be pronounced.
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Idda - The Waiting Perkod
When the husband divorces his wife after menstruation without
approaching her, the wife must wait for three months as the Qurlan
confirms that in this verse:
IlProphet, when ye do divorce women, divorce them at
their prescribed period, apd count (acurately) their
prescribed period. " 34
Islam preserves the rights of the divorced woman during Idda,
for example. she can still stay in the marital home during thfis period
it was mentioned. One of the ideas behind the probationary period
1., Sahih al Bukhari,, op. cit.. Vol. 7. P. 130 and Sahih Muslim, Vol 2. P. 755
2'ý See' Abd cu! Aý;, op. cit., P. 228
3. - Q. 65,1
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