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Registering
marriages and divorce
Question:
If it is necessary by law to register a divorce or to follow
registration procedures with the official authorities in the
country where he is living, then, after he has divorced according
to Islaamic law, should he go and formally register it with
those authorities?
Response:
There is no objection to him registering it but it should
be done according to Islaamic law. He should say that he has
divorced his wife so and so, the daughter of so and so, according
to Islaamic law and then it can be entered in the register
of those people. There is no objection to this because he
has in fact followed the procedures of Islaamic law. This
procedure should be followed for marriage and other indispensable
contracts, with the stipulation that we do not record them
according to their conditions but according to the conditions
laid down in Islaam.
Shaykh
Ibn 'Uthaymeen
al-Aqalliyaat al-Muslimah - Page 74, Fatwa No.13
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