Nikah Halal: Haram (Prohibited) or Halal (Permissible)?
Nikah Halala is absolutely prohibited in Islam. There is no room in Islam for Halala. It is complete nonsense.
The clerics are the ones who started this. There is no room for it in Islam.
Why isn't there room for it? Ask me.
When you get your ex-wife married to another man so that you can remarry her yourself,
then it means your real intention is to have her do a Halala, not for her to actually marry another man.
Whereas the law in Islam is that after divorce,
you can only remarry your ex-wife when she has married another person and been given a divorce by him, too.
However, it must be a natural process.
But in Halala, you get her married to someone else and you say, 'Don't touch her. Just say the marriage vows and divorce her after two minutes.'
So there is something wrong with your intentions.
The intention behind Halala isn't to actually marry.
When you don't intend to have a genuine marriage, how can the marriage vows be valid?
'Your actions depend on your intentions.' - Prophetic Tradition
What do you think?
Your actions depend on your intentions, and you never intended [for it to be a genuine marriage]. And this is what the clerics do!
In Pakistan, I fought with clerics over this matter.
It is prohibited for one to sleep in the mosque.
It is not permissible for one to eat or drink in the mosque. You are not allowed.
But what do the clerics do? They say, 'You can eat and sleep in the mosque, just express the intention of performing Itikaf.
What? When you are not actually doing Itikaf, how can you express the intention of doing it?
This is what clerics in Pakistan say! 'Just express intention of Itikaf and eat in the mosque.' What?!
When you don't actually mean to do Itikaf, how can you express the intention of doing it?
[If you do this] it is a lie, isn't it?
You are deceiving yourself and you think that you can deceive the religion this way, too?
You actually intend to eat [in the mosque].
So it means you want to fool [the religion]. You want to bypass the religion.
You are committing fraud against the religion, in other words.
'Express the intention of Itikaf' - but when you aren't actually doing Itikaf and you don't really mean to do it, how can this intention be valid?
Could it ever be possible that you express the intention of loving someone and then you slap them?
You intend to love them but then you slap them. [How silly is that?]
To slap someone in love is allowed - so in that case, express the intention of loving them and then slap them. It's not possible, right?
You are slapping them because your real objective is to slap them.
God looks at your intentions.
'Your actions depend upon your intentions.'
You actually mean to eat [in the mosque]. This is your intention.
So you are trying to fraudulently follow the Islamic system.
Similarly, when you have a Halala done, what is your real intention?
Your real intention will be Halala, not a genuine marriage.
So since you don't intend for it to be a genuine marriage, it is prohibited [in the religion].
This is why my fatwa (religious verdict) is that Halala is not permissible in Islam. It is prohibited.
Now it is up to you, you can go a any cleric about it. The clerics just do that which is prohibited anyway.
They do that which is prohibited and they get others to do it as well. They have the entire Muslim world doing that which is prohibited.
I have told you the truth.
Do you understand?
This is the truth. Check the Prophetic Tradition I mentioned.
Did you know that in the UK, America and Canada, these clerics have turned Halala into a business?
A business!
They have made rooms in the mosques.
They deceive women.
They have actually made Halala packages [that they sell]. The BBC made a programme about this.
They have made packages like a '3-Day Trip Halala'.
And the package includes a 5-star hotel and other [demands].
They make a lot of money. Just like how for Hajj (pilgrimage to Kaaba) they make groups,
similarly there is a Halala business.
It is a very lucrative business in England.
Every day the cleric has a new bride.
But I am telling you: go and consult any religious book.
You will not find anything that encourages Halala.
In light of the Koran and Customs of Prophet Mohmmad, Halala is prohibited in the religion.
Why is it prohibited?
Because you didn't actually intend to have a [genuine marriage].
Your actions depend upon your intentions.
Now what remains to be discussed is this:
[Someone may say], 'We had to do [Halala] because we were helpless. I divorced her in a fit of anger.'
You gave her a divorce in anger?
God and the Koran have issued decrees for you to follow. You have to follow those laws.
Who told you to give her all three divorces in on go?
You should have given them one by one.
What is the point of such anger?
You say you divorced her out of anger - why didn't you take a knife and slit your throat in anger [if anger causes you to behave so irrationally]?
Why didn't you jump off a 10-storey high building in a fit of anger?
When it comes to [your own life] you know right from wrong.
Have you ever heard about a man jumping off a 10-storey high building just because he was angry?
[How ridiculous would it be to hear that] he jumped off the building and broke his legs - and his reason for doing so was that he was angry?
[Just as ridiculous would be someone saying], 'I was angry, that is why I stabbed myself.'
These are just excuses!
How can you say that you divorced your wife in anger?
If you are a Muslim, respect the Koran and the Customs of Prophet Mohammad.
Live your life according to what Prophet Mohammad and God have told you.
If you follow the Prophet Mohammad and God, it will never get to a point where you divorce [and regret it] and need a Halala.
What do you think?
And then what do people say?
People say, 'The laws of Islam are cruel.'
'If a woman is divorced out of anger, she can't return to her husband.'
Yes, but who said to divorce her out of anger?
In anger, you could have just given her one divorce.
You could have just given one.
Then within 2 months if you reconciled, your marriage would be renewed.
Isn't that true?
Isn't it ridiculous that you gave her all 3 divorces in one go?
There are many things that a person doesn't do, despite being in a state of anger.
You care about your life; that is why you didn't jump off a 10-storey building even in anger.
When you care so much about your life, why don't you care about the Koran and Customs of Prophet Mohammad while you are angry?
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