talaq-e-ahsan

Arabic/Persian · ta-LAAK eh AH-san · Family and succession

Meaning. The most approved form of talaq: a single pronouncement in a period of purity, followed by abstinence for the iddat period.

In talaq-e-ahsan, the husband makes a single pronouncement of divorce during a tuhr (the period between two menstrual cycles) in which there has been no sexual intercourse, and then abstains from intercourse for the period of iddat. The talaq can be revoked expressly or by resuming cohabitation at any time during iddat; it becomes final and irrevocable only when iddat ends.

It is called “ahsan” (most proper) because it leaves the longest time for reconciliation, and after it the parties may remarry without halala. The tuhr condition does not apply where the wife is not subject to menstruation or the marriage was not consummated.

Example

Because the husband resumed cohabitation before the iddat expired, the talaq-e-ahsan he had pronounced stood revoked.

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