Continued from:
Due to her continued rejection of
his advances, he decided to apply external pressure on her. He sent a team of people from his office to
see her, led by a female religious authority called the Ustazah. The Ustazah gave her a very long sermon on
marriage and that according to the religion, she should be always obedient to her
husband.
She could not take it
anymore. She decided to tell the Ustazah everything that had happened and
let the Ustazah judge for herself. The Usatazah was very patient and took more
than an hour listening to her.
After the Ustazah listened to her
side of the story, the Ustazah was
moved and was crying openly. Finally, wiping
off her tears, the Ustazah said to her, “Now,
I understand. He has no right to ask me
to persuade you to reconcile with him.
In fact morally after he uttered “I release you”, you are already
divorced and the divorce has to be formalized.
If he wants you back he has to marry you again.”
However, even after the Ustazah’s visit he stayed on and refused
to formalize their divorce. She lived
her life in the next 1 year and a half in some kind of a nightmare, a nightmare
too painful for her to recollect.
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