Man Accidentally Divorces Wife in Sleep

[JohnT]

Re: Re: Man Accidentally Divorces Wife in Sleep

Originally posted by CerberusIV

Which just goes to prove that women are usually completely incapable of keeping their mouths shut no matter how good the reason.

This is nothing but the Truth of the Ancients. So it is written, so it is done.

[Smellycowsquid]

Wow.

[mrmitchell]

National Lampoon True Fact (August 1987)

According to the San Diego Tribune, Usman Pirzada and his wife, Sameena, co-starred in a Pakistani television soap opera portraying a stormy marriage. In one episode, the script called on him to tell her he wants a divorce. According to Islamic law, "Once a man pronounces the word 'talaq' or says 'I divorce you' three times, the marriage is over."

Now an Islamic court has ruled that the words "once spoken - even as a joke--cannot be forgotten" and that since Usman spoke the words to his wife, they are divorced in real life as well as on television.

The laws further state that Usman cannot remarry Sameena unless she first "takes another husband and obtains a divorce from him." Meanwhile, they cannot live together, since that constitutes adultery, a criminal offense in Pakistan.

"The Pirzadas," said the report, "are distressed with the verdict."

[Vince278]

I've heard of sleep-walking but sleep-divorcing?!?

I believe Islamic law says he has to say it three times in front of witnesses. (and having witnesses in your bedroom is against Islamic law ) Now if they do it on TV as part of a plot, they can always cut scene to something else before he says it the third time and leave the completion as something implied and not actual.

[Heresson]

Originally posted by alva

The religious leaders said that before remarrying, the couple would have to be apart for at least 100 days and that the wife, Sohela, would also have to spend a night with another man and then be divorced by him.

Wow, she's creative!
How long did it take her to come up with that scheme?

No, she did not come up with that. During my "classical arabic literature" lessons, I've read about one of the classical stories of "uzric" love. I don't remember it too well. I believe it was in Umayyad period, and it was the story that involved father putting himself out on the sun threatening his own life; he told his son he would keep doing it unless he divorces his wife. So he did, but he wanted to come back to her. Anyway, he could not mary her again until she got married to another guy and divorced again.
So it's kind of standart and a long tradition, over thousand years old.

[alva]

I'm not saying she invented it.
Just to "come up" with it...as in finding a way to sleep with someone else...getting rid of her old man.

[VetLegion]

There should be a rent-a-husband service which employs eunuchs, for cases like these.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Oerdin


I'm trying to figure out if it is these individuals who are stupid or if it is the religion which is stupid.

Who says it aint both?

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Vince278

I've heard of sleep-walking but sleep-divorcing?!?

I believe Islamic law says he has to say it three times in front of witnesses. (and having witnesses in your bedroom is against Islamic law ) .

Nope . You don't need witnesses to talaq .

And you need four ( or was it three ? ) witnesses to adultery for the charge of adultery to stick in Islamic court .

Originally posted by Vince278

Now if they do it on TV as part of a plot, they can always cut scene to something else before he says it the third time and leave the completion as something implied and not actual.