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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 24 Aug 2020 › Segment 5 of 40

Is my divorce automatic if my husband has been unreachable for over a year?

hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith muftis dalil daleel adillah adilla evidence nikkah nikaah nikah nama nikahnama talaaq triple talaq talak khula khulah

A wife whose husband cannot be contacted: divorce processes cost money

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Segment 5 of 40 in the recording2020-08-24-S05

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It is not automatic: there are processes for a woman to obtain a divorce, and though they cost money, mosques will usually ask for proof of talaq before a new nikah.

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Mufti Abu Layth agrees to a viewer's suggestion to bring Ahmadis onto MindTrap and notes a superchat on psychedelics to return to. He then reads a question about women seeking divorce from cheating husbands who cannot be contacted for over a year, asking whether the divorce is automatic, since khul' costs money. He says there are processes through which a woman is granted a divorce, and that unfortunately they cost, because we live in an age of documentation: most mosques ask anyone previously married for proof of talaq before conducting a new nikah, like proof of ID. He compares it to paying for a nikah certificate and says it is something one does once or twice in a lifetime.

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Women want a divorce from cheating husbands: is it automatic if he has not been contactable for over a year, since khul' costs money?

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Mufti Abu Layth says that most mosques will ask for proof of talaq before conducting a new nikah for someone previously married.

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“usually masjids at the time of future nikkas will ask you if you've been married before and if you state yes they will ask you for proof of your talaq”

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[Laughter] ah and the irony is the hadith actually doesn't it's stressing that it's not on money it's more on the products anyway watch my video hope that helps right people right inaudible much appreciated for saying uh those people tuning in this is why yeah i should make let me there you go here there you go look at that it has been upgraded

right you got mod status there you go let people know anybody asking right when will you bring ismael kasam saying mufti when will you bring ahmadis on mine trap now yeah sure why not why not now okay bye my right so right there's a question on there was a question on consciousness there's super chat have i missed it let me see i can see it here handsome hound

you're doing it some people define intoxication as an inability to differentiate night from day in other words loss of consciousness how is it different from psychedelics whoa there's a few super chats i haven't seen here wait here let me oh let me come back to that question i want to talk about it so a woman women want a divorce from cheating husbands is it automatic no he's not contactable for over a year and hola cost money yeah i mean unfortunately there are

processes for aid the lock where a woman goes through they are granted but you you're right they will cost that is you see the problem with because we live in a day and age of documentation you see it won't usually masjids at the time of future nikkas will ask you if you've been married before and if you state yes they will ask you for proof of your talaq so they will ask for a certificate

um now not having that in most masjids would mean that they won't conduct any care it's like asking for your proof of id you know they will ask for have you got proof of id and i understand these things do cost unfortunately but uh yeah that uh there's not much i can really add to that it is um fortunate i guess g hey but it is the way it's like when people get married they get a nikka certificate and they pay so much to do a nicara and but these things on the on the flip side these are not things that you will be doing so often in life

you will probably do this maybe once in your entire life maybe twice it's not actually something that's so repetitive generally speaking some e has super chatted you do and it you do and it is a quick question related to that is a decree absolute enough no it isn't usually so a civil divorce is not an islamic divorce and a civil marriage is not an islamic marriage per se they can have overlaps but they're not uh technically uh by default they do not cover it they

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, August 24). Is my divorce automatic if my husband has been unreachable for over a year? [Video, segment 2020-08-24-S05, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/5/

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Mufti Abu Layth. 2020. "Is my divorce automatic if my husband has been unreachable for over a year?" Video, segment 2020-08-24-S05, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded August 24, 2020. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/5/

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