The Quran Has It All #21 Divorce

So as Allah

taught us in the Quran,

as a community,

we fell in love with each other, we

get married.

Unfortunately, sometimes

things doesn't go the way. We wanted it

or planned it, and Allah knows that, and

he mentioned it in the Quran.

And that is actually

divorce.

SubhanAllah.

And Allah put it in a way

that it is not

encouraged,

neither it is condemned.

It's something that is going to happen. But

what do we need to learn? What is

he teaching us in the Quran? The rules

of it. What are the boundaries?

What are the rights of the woman? What

are the rights of the man? Or what

should he do? Or what she she should

do? And there's 2 places in the Quran

where it is detailed, if you want to

use the word. One of them is actually

in Surat Al Baqarah. In Allah,

it's almost 2 pages of the Quran, but

the interesting thing is a whole chapter in

the Quran

is actually

covering

the divorce.

And start that chapter.

Allah is addressing Rasul,

as if he is telling him, this is

really serious. I am telling you, I want

you to learn this, and which means

I and you need to learn this. And

he says,

when you are gonna divorce the woman because,

there was

a, a strong opinion that he divorced Hafsa,

the daughter of Sayidna Umar, and then he

brought her back.

And then Allah

is telling you and me

what are the things that we really need

to be very careful about.

There is

a waiting period.

There is times the man cannot divorce the

woman.

What happens if she was pregnant?

What happens if she was breastfeeding and the

divorce happened?

All these rulings

in detail in the Surat Upalah

chapter of divorce.

How about

because usually the waiting period is related to

menstruation.

What about if the woman

does not have menstruation?

What is the ruling?

What is so interesting that we all have

to learn,

that Surah Al Tanakh, the chapter of Tanakh,

is only 12 verses.

Out of these 12 verses,

5 times Allah

mentioned the word taqo in different way.

And most commonly is,

the person who practice taqo

because it is an action.

Divorce is not something very easy.

It's unfortunately

something

that cause harm, cause pain,

ego goes in it,

pain, emotions.

And the only way for me and us

as human beings

to do it this the way that pleases

Allah

is to remember again the taqwa of Allah

that Allah is watching,

Allah is allowing it. Allah put boundaries.

I need to

follow these boundaries. For example, one of the

boundaries Allah said is do not harm them.

Do not hold them, meaning don't divorce them

so you cause more harm to them. He

also taught us, don't do that so that

she will not be able to marry somebody

else.

Do not let them leave the house

or the woman should not leave the house.

This is all in the Quran. SubhanAllah.

Now when we and this is sometimes what

shaitan brings inside us. If I am gonna

do this or I'm gonna do this, I'm

gonna lose this or I'm gonna lose that.

And Allah said one of the most beautiful

verses

that Rasool, alaihis salatu wa salam said about

it. There is a verse in the Quran.

The person who practice it will be more

than enough for him or her.

Whomsoever

practice taqwa, Allah conscious,

Allah will make a way out for him.

And there is so many meanings

of this way out. But let's say financially,

if I am gonna not obey Allah in

the divorce, I'm gonna lose money. Remember,

you obey Allah. You'll be Allah conscious. Allah

will find a way out for you.

And I am going to go through divorce

and life is going to be very

difficult. If you're gonna follow Allah's rule, Allah

will make it easy for you.

One of the interesting thing again in chapter

talaq,

the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is

so much repeated in it.

And as Allah talking about Talaq or divorce,

you see in between,

Allah brings

the result or what happened to a nation

that disobeyed Allah.

They

absolutely did not obey Allah.

They paid the price for it. SubhanAllah.

And in also very interesting,

everything

in the heavens, in the earth, and what

comes in between them.

So you know Allah is capable of doing

anything and everything.

So you know Allah

encompass everything. He knows the suffering he or

she is going through. He knows the pain

you are going through. He knows the feeling

of failure sometimes people feel.

And Allah knows everything.

Islam is a beautiful religion

and Islam is a faith or a religion

that

touch on realities.

The beauty of Islam is that it has

this

sublime

nature

of a religion. It takes it serious, but

also it takes

it reality,

teaches me.

When I, and may Allah protect all their

marriages, But these things happen.

And what we all need to learn is

when we go through this difficult time,

remember Allah.

Learn what Allah have taught us, you and

me, in the Quran. Obey Him. Follow it.

Even if

externally it's gonna

make us feel that we may be losing

something. Remember,

Whomsoever

practice Allah consciousness,

Allah will find a way. May Allah protect

all their marriages. May Allah makes divorce a

way that to bring as we've said many

times in this series. Everything comes from Allah,

is khair, everything Allah allows,

this way.

this way.