In Islam, iddah or iddat (العدة; period of waiting) is the period a woman must observe after the death of her spouse or after a divorce, during which she may not marry another man. Its purpose is to ensure that the male parent of any offspring produced after the cessation of a nikah (marriage) would be known. The length of iddah varies accord...
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a specified period of time that must elapse before a Muslim widow or divorcee may legitimately remarry. The Qur`n (2:228) prescribes that a ...
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