Is The Husband Justified In Asking Me To Leave?

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

If your question is related to your husband’s instruction to you and your children to leave the home, then the issue will be analyzed according to your husband’s Shar’ee obligations of providing maintenance and shelter for you and his children.

If the children, male and female are minors (Na-Baligh)[1] or an adult female who is unmarried[2], then the father has to provide maintenance and shelter for his minor children.

Accordingly, it is incorrect to instruct the children to leave the home.

If your husband instructed you to leave the home and his intention was to issue you the third divorce, then too he cannot instruct you at this stage to leave the home as you are obliged to spend Iddat in the husband’s home. [3]

Upon the expiry of the iddat, alternative arrangements can be made taking into consideration the shelter for the minor children and the need for the mother to be with the children.

And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best

Ismail Desai,
Student Darul Iftaa
Durban, South Africa

Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.