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Our next question an anonymous husband emails or I should say the husband wishes to remain anonymous and

He says that after an argument with his wife his wife abruptly left the household went back to her parents in

Another land and cut off all contact with him that he has no means of getting in contact with his wife

And he is saying how can a divorce now be finalized when one of the spouses is not present

The response to this is that first and foremost I urge you to you know

I mean obviously it is a mandatory for me to say so and it is a part of our Islamic etiquettes as well that don't give up hope

See if some type of soulah can be done always as Allah says was so

Bringing about reconciliation is good make dua to Allah and see if if it's best nonetheless if the both of you feel

That there is no hope or if one of them has clearly indicated by what has just occurred

And you are literally not in the position you do not even know how to get in contact with your wife and what not

Then in reality technically speaking for a husband to divorce his wife

It is not a condition that she be present in front of him. He may divorce her

During obviously a time frame where he's allowed to divorce her

What I mean by this is a purity between her two men says that they have not been intimate and according to the question

Many months if not even a year has gone by since she has left and so clearly that is not an issue and therefore he may

pronounce divorce and inform two close family friends or two witnesses that he has divorced this while this lady and

I am sure there are some mutual friends

I'm sure you know Facebook or something you can figure out give get the message across that her idda has begun and

The idda will begin from the moment the divorce is pronounced it doesn't matter even if they have not been together for an entire year

The idda is not related to when intimacy last occurred

The idda is related to one the talak was verbalized and finalized and

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