Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) is one such petitioner. Petitions have been filed by a few Muslim women and rights organisations in the Supreme Court of India against nikah halala. ( April 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page.

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UK Ī BBC report found that halala is practised in certain Pakistani Muslim communities in the UK. Al-Hakim Nishapuri adds that marriage should be based on genuine intentions, and that in the time of Muhammad, tahleel spouses would have been considered adulterers. Abu Dawood and Ibn Majah reported that both the first husband (muhallil) and the temporary husband (muhallil lahu) were cursed by God, and Ibn Majah calls the temporary husband 'a borrowed billy-goat'. There are hadith indicating that entering a tahleel marriage with the intention of divorcing so that the original spouses can remarry is forbidden (haraam). Making the third pronouncement irrevocable acts as a deterrent to rash repudiations. This is known as tahlil marriage or nikah halala. If the husband repudiates his wife for the third time, it triggers a 'major' divorce ( al-baynuna al-kubra), after which the couple cannot remarry without an intervening consummated marriage by the wife to another man. This is called a 'minor' divorce ( al-baynuna al-sughra) and the couple can remarry. The divorce becomes final when the waiting period expires. Resumption of sexual relations automatically retracts the repudiation. The husband can revoke the divorce at any time during the waiting period ( ‘ iddah) which lasts three full menstrual cycles.

The initial declaration of talaq is a revocable repudiation (ṭalāq rajʿah) which does not terminate the marriage. In classical Islamic law, a husband may divorce by simply announcing to his wife that he repudiates her ( talaq). Nikah halala is practiced by a small minority of Muslims, mainly in countries that recognise the triple talaq. This form of marriage is haram (forbidden) according to the hadith of Islamic prophet Muhammad. Nikah means marriage and halala means to make something halal, or permissible. Nikah halala ( Urdu: نکاح حلالہ), also known as tahleel marriage, is a practice in which a woman, after being divorced by triple talaq, marries another man, consummates the marriage, and gets divorced again in order to be able to remarry her former husband.

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