The Divorced Muslimah. 48,368 likes 1,187 talking about this. A support group for muslim women who are affected by divorce. A note to the brothers:We are NOT a matchmaking page, and CANNOT find. Can Muslim Women Initiate Divorce? This is another misrepresentation about the treatment of women in Islam. Types of Divorce in Islam. There are multiple types of legal divorce in Islam. The first is called Talaq and it’s when the husband initiates the divorce. The ex-husband must pay child support regardless of custody. The Divorced Muslimah June 26, 2020 For the sister who asked about the rules of iddah for a working woman. This article contains all the rules for a widow and a divorcee. My name is ifgodwill, and I am a 55 years old divorced moderate Muslim female living in Dubai U.A.E. UAE + fifty, eighty four, twenty three, zero eleven. My mother tongue is Arabic. I am 5`6' (167 cm) tall and have a fair complexion and an average body. I do not smoke and I do not drink. Nov 15, 2016 Divorce in Islam. Marriage, as prescribed by Allah, is the lawful union of a man and a woman based on mutual consent. Ideally, the purpose of marriage is to foster a state of tranquility, love and compassion in Islam, but this is not always the case. Islam discourages divorce but, unlike some religions, does make provisions for divorce.

1. Muslim Divorced Matrimony

I got married young. Well, not too young. I had just turned 20, and I thought I had all the answers. Me then versus me almost 10 years later…oh, boy. What a difference.
A lot of maturing and growth occurred between now and then. And for that, I’m grateful.
If you had only seen the immature Facebook rants and friendship drama I was involved in. Ugh. Very embarrassing.
But that’s all in the past now.
See, at this point, I have bigger fish to fry.
I had just turned 29 — and divorce happened.

No matter how we view the unfortunate and fortunate events in our lives, everything happens for a reason. I believe it. This is more of a personal self-discovery piece.

Hmm… *Shifts eyes back and forth*
Before we dig in, this is not a “bash” essay or a “woulda, coulda, shoulda if I had only known” essay.
No matter how we view the unfortunate and fortunate events in our lives, everything happens for a reason. I believe it. This is more of a personal self-discovery piece — the thoughts and questions on the aftereffects of an Islamic divorce that’s on everyone’s minds, but no one dares to utter out loud.
No matter what issues I had in my marriage, I never, ever thought we’d end up divorcing. I mean, after eight years of matrimony, I thought that was it. Right?
Wrong. Very, very wrong.
We’ve all sat around the table listening to our friends talk about their marriages — the good and the bad — but we never realistically put ourselves in their shoes when it came to the big one, divorce.

We can’t control outcomes; we can only control how we deal with said outcomes.

A Texas judge earlier this year ordered that a Muslim woman seeking a divorce appear before a tribunal governed by Sharia, a move that her lawyers said was unconstitutional.

In March, Collin County District Judge Andrea Thompson ordered that Mariam Ayad, a woman attempting to divorce her husband, Ayad Hashim Latif, forgo the usual legal paths and instead submit to arbitration under a Fiqh panel, governed by a traditional Muslim group based in Saudi Arabia. Thompson's reasoning rested on a prenuptial agreement between the two in which Ayad agreed to allow her marriage to be arbitrated according to Sharia.

Ayad said that when she signed the document, she did not realize that she was submitting to Sharia, according to court documents. Instead, she said she thought she was signing two copies of a marriage acknowledgment form. Under Sharia, a woman's testimony in divorce proceedings is worth half of a man's, making her plea to be removed from that agreement especially urgent, her attorneys wrote.

Ayad argued that she should be released from the agreement because she did not sign it voluntarily and because the agreement itself violates the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. Under the agreement, her husband has the sole right to seek or deny a divorce and Ayad 'will not have a meaningful right to be heard,' her attorneys wrote.

Thompson, however, ruled in March that the agreement was binding. A revised order in June reaffirmed that decision, but it removed explicit references to the Fiqh panel, according to court documents. Under the order, Ayad's divorce case falls under the jurisdiction of the Islamic Association of North Texas, one of the largest Muslim groups in the state.

Thompson did not respond to a request for comment.

Ayad's attorneys took the case to a Texas appeals court, arguing that the Sharia proceedings are in direct conflict with United States divorce law. The agreement itself, they added, is 'unconscionable' and in opposition to Texas law as well.

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Muslim Divorced Matrimony

Original Location:Texas judge denies woman divorce proceedings in favor of Sharia tribunal