Quran: [17:36] "You shall not accept any information, unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight, and the brain, and you are responsible for using them."
Quran: [49:12] "O ye who believe! Avoid suspicion as much (as possible): for suspicion in some cases is a sin: And spy not on each other behind their backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, ye would abhor it...But fear Allah. For Allah is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful."
Iddah And Types Of Iddah In Islam - Period of waiting
The meaning of Iddah in Islam
�Iddah is a period in which a woman waits after the death of her husband or divorce, and she is not allowed to marry during this period.
The Muslim jurists have unanimously agreed on it as being waajib (obligatory) due to the explicitness of the Qur�anic injuction whereby Allah says: �The divorced women shall wait concerning themselves for three monthly periods.�
There are three types of �Iddah:
The first type of �Iddah is that of birth. That is, a woman must wait until she delivers her child before she can remarry. A common erroneous idea among people is that a pregnant woman cannot be divorced. This is not the case at all. Rather there is a consensus on this point among the scholars, and that this is a Sunnah divorce and heresy (bid�ah). There is no dispute regarding its validity.
The second type of �Iddah is the �Iddah of menses. This means a woman is not allowed to marry until she has three menstruations. As soon as the third period ends, �Iddah ends. This is the view of many of the elite companions such as �Umar, �Ali and ibn Masu�d, and it was narrated by ibn al-Qayyim. This is also the view by the majority of contemporary scholars such as ibn Baaz and �Uthaymeen.
The third type of waiting period is the �Iddah of months. This applies to women who have passed the age of menstruation. The �Iddah in this case is three months. As for a woman who is divorced by her husband before he has consummated his marriage with her, then there is no waiting period that applies to her based on verse number 49 from Surat Al-Ahzaab (33).
The woman whose husband has divorced her once or twice is instructed to spend her �Iddah duration within her husband�s house.
Any woman who leaves her home without the permission of her husband after he has uttered either the first or second divorce is in violation of the injunctions of Allah and His Messenger.
A woman whose divorce is revocable (i.e. first divorce or second divorce) may still uncover in front of her husband and adorn herself by applying make-up and perfume. She may speak to him and he may speak to her; she may sit with him and do anything with him apart from intercourse. The only instance in which he may have sexual relations with her is if he takes her back. If the husband kisses and embraces his wife with the intention of taking her back, then that taking back is valid. To be on the safe side however, he should not fondle with his wife until after he has clearly stated that he is taking her back.
In the case were a husband is not sure as to whether he uttered the word of divorce at all, or as to the number of divorces he has uttered, then he should act on the basis of what is certain. So if he is not sure whether he has divorced her or not, the basic principle is that divorce has not taken place, because in this instance marriage is something which is certain, and divorce is something concerning which there is uncertainty. Based on the juristic principle that certainty cannot be overridden by doubt, if the husband is uncertain as to whether he has divorced his wife once or twice, he should assume that he has divorced her once, because this is what is certain.
