New Delhi: So do you sleep-talk? Well, if you are a married Muslim, beware. Coz just one harmless, unintended sleep-talk might just change the course of your life. Like it changed Aftab and Sohela Ansari’s.
Aftab has been directed by local Islamic clerics in West Bengal to divorce his wife after he said 'talaq, talaq, talaq' thrice in his sleep.
Talaq in Urdu means divorce and according to Islamic laws, triple rendition of the word amounts to divorce.
But Aftab, a resident of West Bengal, didn’t know that uttering the three words in his blissful sleep would cost him his married life.
Sohela told her friends that Aftab had uttered the word "talaq", or divorce, three times in his sleep, according to the report published in newspapers on Monday.
When local Islamic leaders got to hear about it, they ruled Aftab's words constituted a divorce under Islamic laws
The couple, married for 11 years with three children, were told they had to split.
The religious leaders ruled that if the couple wanted to remarry they would have to wait for at least 100 days and that Sohela would also have to spend a night with another man and be divorced by him in turn.
The couple have refused to obey the order and the issue has been referred to a local family counselling centre.
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