This has got to be the one of the most ridiculous things going on in our world. A story in Reuters Go to bed married, wake up divorced reports on an India couple who’ve been caught up in a very peculiar Islamic law related to marriage.
Sohela Ansari told friends that her husband Aftab had uttered the word “talaq,” or divorce, three times in his sleep, according to the report published in newspapers Monday.
When local Islamic leaders got to hear, they said Aftab’s words constituted a divorce under an Islamic procedure known as “triple talaq.” The couple, married for 11 years with three children, were told they had to split.
The religious leaders ruled that if the couple wanted to remarry they would have to wait at least 100 days. Sohela would also have to spend a night with another man and be divorced by him in turn.
I can not believe how some societies have twisted the sanctity of marriage.