DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDER. Yawm al-ithnayn, 9th day of Rabeeul Awwal 1447AH, Monday, 1st September, 2025.

ASKING YOUR HUSBAND FOR A DIVORCE FOR NO LEGITIMATE REASON IS A DANGEROUS ACT continues. BismilLah.

Many women hasten to demand a divorce from their husbands for the slightest argument, or if their husbands do not give them what they want in money. Some women may be egged on by troublemakers among their relatives, friends or neighbours to challenge their husbands with provocative words such as: “If you are a real man, you would divorce me!” The dire results of divorce are well known: breakdown of the family and children roaming the streets. A person may come to regret divorce when it is too late. For all these reasons and others, the Sharee’ah wisely prohibited such actions. 

The Prophet (peace and blessings of ALLAH be upon him) is reported to have said: “Any woman who asks her husband for a divorce with no sound reason will be deprived of smelling the fragrance of Paradise.”(Reported by Imam Ahmad, 5.277; see also Saheeh al-Jaami’, 2703). Also, Sheikh ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Aamir (may ALLAH be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of ALLAH be upon him) said: “Woman who ask for divorce and women who contend unnecessarily with their husbands are hypocrites.”(Reported by al-Tabaraani in al-Kabeer, 17/339; see also Saheeh al-Jaami’, 1934).

But if there is a sound reason, such as the husband abandoning prayer, drinking or taking drugs and abusive, or forcing his wife to do something haraam, or oppressing her and making her suffer by denying her the rights granted to her by Islaam, and he does not listen to advice to mend his ways, then in this case there is nothing wrong with a woman seeking divorce for her own sake and for the sake of her religion. May ALLAH AZZAWAJAL keep GUIDING and PROTECTING us from any satanic influences. Aameen.