talaq-e-hasan

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

Meaning. An approved form of talaq made by three pronouncements in three successive periods of purity.

In talaq-e-hasan, the husband pronounces talaq once during a tuhr in which there has been no intercourse, again in the next tuhr, and a third time in the third tuhr. The first two pronouncements can be revoked by express words or resuming cohabitation; the third pronouncement makes the divorce irrevocable at once.

After the third pronouncement the parties cannot remarry unless the wife has validly married another man, that marriage has been consummated and then dissolved, and she has observed iddat (nikah halala). It is recognised as an approved (sunnat) form, unlike talaq-e-biddat, though petitions questioning its validity have been filed in the Supreme Court.

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Unlike triple talaq, talaq-e-hasan spreads the three pronouncements over three months, leaving room for reconciliation.

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