21 April 2006

wasn't this a romantics song?

From Zizi, a former prof and current friend:

"Report: Sleep 'divorce' counts
Reports say Islamic couple must wait 100 days to
remarry

NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) -- A Muslim couple in India
have been told by local Islamic leaders they must
separate after the husband "divorced" his wife in his
sleep, the Press Trust of India reported.
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 on 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.
The couple, who live in the eastern state of West
Bengal, have refused to obey the order and the issue
has been referred to a local family counseling center.

India's minority Muslim population is governed by
Islamic personal laws on issues such as marriage,
divorce and property inheritance.
"This is a totally unnecessary controversy and the
local 'community leaders' or whosoever has said it are
totally ignorant of Islamic law," said Zafarul-Islam
Khan, an Islamic scholar and editor of The Milli
Gazette, a popular Muslim newspaper.
"The law clearly says any action under compulsion or
in a state of intoxication has no effect. The case of
someone uttering something while asleep falls under
this category and will have no impact whatsoever,"
Khan told Reuters."

Sheesh! I want to know who filed the charge - the "happily" married wife or the secret service of night-time talaq-watchers. Or listeners. Or whatever.

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