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Our next question is actually a very long one, but I will give the short answer today and maybe another time

I'll give a longer answer, brother Nawaz emails and asks about the very very contentious issue of the triple talak

Does a triple talak count as the triple and so effectively the marriage is over or does it count as one talak?

And we have not sent a triple talak

but we have sent a long answer to them

so ask them whether they will remember if you do not know

Now this is a very hotly debated question

and one day maybe one day I will give a much more longer answer in which I go with the evidences and who said what and the development of this question

but that's another day, this is the rapid Q&A

and so I'm going to give the short quick and easy one

It is my adamant opinion, it is an opinion that you know I try my best to be forceful

you know I try my best to be gentle in many opinions but in this issue and in some issues

I really do take a bit of a hard line stance and I say really this should be the position

and of course I respect all the ulama who hold their views, I respect them

but still I forcefully say that the other view is dangerous and harmful

generally speaking if two views are there and they don't harm anybody, no big deal

but sometimes a view is actually harmful to people

and the view that a triple palak effectively finishes the marriage permanently

and the children will be raised without a father and the wife will not have a husband

is something that really has to be spoken out against

a triple palak does not constitute a final ending of the marriage it constitutes one divorce

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