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Today's chattera will be ficki with a tinge of politics,

but I have to be generic as I'll explain why.

We're going to begin with a very basic overview of a topic that

everybody should know. It is something that is a part of our religion. And that is the reality

of marriage and divorce laws. We thank Allah that our religion has told us everything we need to

know. Our religion is a holistic complete religion. As Allah says in the

Quran, Ma for Ratna of the kitabimishaid,

there's nothing that is left out.

And everything we need to know about how to live,

how to eat, what to eat, how to drink,

how to get married, when to get married, who can we get married to, who can we not get married to, and when can we divorce, how can we divorce?

The rules are all very explicit in the Quran.

And so today, in sha ala, we're going to talk a little bit about the reality

of one of the aspects that we should be all aware of and that is the issue of Ida. What does

Ida mean? Ida it, it does it,

and technically it is to count the time frame

between the ending of one Nikah of a lady

and the beginning of a new niqueh. And this is something

that the Quran has been very explicit about. So the idda is the time frame.

The idda is the interim period that when does one nika end and another nika may begin, there is an interim. That interim, you count it. That interim is called Ida and the Quran has given very explicit

rulings about the Ida and the Ahadith clarify these rulings and of course there's a

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