Her husband has divorced her and is refusing to let her go back to his house until she has apologized to his parents

Question: 217327

my husband pronounced TALAQ to me for about 1 month; we were in holidays in africa. we live in Germany.my family took my things and my children and i went to my parents home. he returned to germany and left me there with the children. my family managed to pay me a Ticket so that i can come back with the children.now he says that he doesnt look at me as his wife,he didn’t give me authorization to come back. he told me that i should go back and ask for forgiveness to his parents before he takes me back.I do offended his parents and asked for forgiveness.DO I REALLY NEED HIS AUTHORIZATION TO COME BACK HOME?

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

If this divorce (talaaq) that your husband gave you was a first or second
talaaq, then it is a revocable talaaq. A number of rulings result from a
revocable talaaq, one of which is that the divorced woman must observe her
‘iddah in her husband’s house; it is not permissible for the husband to make
her leave and it is not permissible for her to leave except in the case of
necessity or need, because Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of
the meaning):

“O Prophet (SAW)! When you divorce women, divorce them at their Iddah
(prescribed periods), and count (accurately) their Iddah (periods ). And
fear Allah your Lord (O Muslims), and turn them not out of their (husbands)
homes, nor shall they (themselves) leave, except in case they are guilty of
some some clear and serious misconduct. And those are the set limits of
Allah. And whosoever transgresses the set limits of Allah, then indeed he
has wronged himself. You (the one who divorces his wife) know not, it may be
that Allah will afterward bring some new thing to pass (i.e. to return her
back to you if that was the first or second divorce)”

[at-Talaaq 65:1].

But there is an important matter which we must point out here, which is that
if the woman who has been revocably divorced shows any kind of mistreatment
or offensive behaviour towards her husband’s family, it is permissible for
her husband to make her leave his house and observe the ‘iddah elsewhere.
The fuqaha’ based this on the verse in which Allah, may He be exalted, says
(interpretation of the meaning): “and turn them not out of their
(husbands) homes, nor shall they (themselves) leave, except in case they are
guilty of some some clear and serious misconduct.” [at-Talaaq 65:1].
Many of the righteous early generations interpreted the word faahishah
(translated here as serious misconduct) here as including offensive
behaviour towards the husband’s family. This is how it was interpreted by
‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allah be pleased with him) and this was regarded
as correct by Imam ash-Shaafa‘i (may Allah have mercy on him).

Our advice to your husband is to let you return to his house and to him,
because he stipulated that for him to take you back, you should apologize to
his parents, and you have done that.

And Allah knows best.

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