Click to play videoTonk (Rajasthan): A Muslim woman from Tonk in Rajasthan has kicked up a storm with her decision to send a talaknama to her husband by post.
Hasina thought her marriage was over and she was out of a punishing relationship. However, for the mother of seven children, it wasn’t over.
She has been questioned by clerics as to why she decided to divorce her husband through post.
Hasina says she had been tortured by her husband Mohammed Sharif for long. But the final blow came when Mohammed demanded another lakh from her family.
She decided she wasn't going to wait for her husband to give her talaq so she sent him a talaknama by post, and that apparently is not acceptable to Muslim clerics.
Says Manjjur Alam of Muslim Personal Law Board, “If he hasn’t given Nafqa for two years, If the husband has been missing for four years or more, if he has been imprisoned for seven years or more if the husband ill-treats the wife makes her drink then these become genuine grounds for talaq.”
Islamic scholars say Muslim women do have a right to walk out of a marriage, they can seek Khulla or the permission to divorce her husband but they cannot utter talaq.
“Shariat prescribes talaq and it prescribes Khulla. If a woman wants to separate she asks for Khulla that is permitted but the implementation of the Khulla is not easy as talaq is so in those cases,” says sociologist Azra Kidwai.
Khulla or Triple talaq, the Quran is very cautious when it comes to divorce. In fact talaq is sanctioned only in extreme circumstances like a couple being unable to stay together despite all efforts of reconciliation
Meanwhile, Hasina's husband Mohammed has refused to accept the talaqnam, which means he won't divorce his wife.
Says Mohammed, “I have seven children. I don’t want to give a divorce to Hasina. Everyone makes mistakes.”
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