"There are three things which, whether done in joke or in earnest, shall be considered serious and effectual, namely, …"

"Every divorce is lawful except a madman's."

""Cursed be the second husband who makes the wife (divorce) lawful for her first husband, and cursed be the first husb…"

"Whenever attention is drawn to the absolute and inhuman power that the Shariah gives to the husband to throw his wife…"

"The rationale for throwing the wife out even in these circumstances is telling. It is set out in the Hidayah: The div…"

"The point is put in perspective on the very next page. If there is some doubt about a woman, the Fatawa-i-Rizvia rule…"

"O Prophet, when you divorce women, divorce them when they have reached their period. Count the period, and fear God y…"

"Such of your women as have passed the age of monthly courses, for them the prescribed period, if ye have any doubts, …"

"In glaring contrast to the gloss which modern apologists try to put on the matter, Islamic jurists have faithfully fo…"

"The woman who asks her husband to divorce her without a cause, the smell of Paradise is forbidden her."