Man divorces wife through SMS in Saudi

Friday, April 10, 2009, 12:19 [IST]

London, Apr 10: A Saudi man divorced his wife by uttering 'I divorce you' thrice through a text message.

According to the Arab News, the man was in Iraq to participate in what he described as 'jihad' when he sent the SMS telling his wife that he's divorcing her, reports The Telegraph.

He confirmed the split by telephoning two of his relatives.

A court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah has finalised the split after summoning the two relatives to check they had received word of the husband's intention, said the paper.

This is the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message.

ANI

Topics: saudi arabia, divorce, sms, london, iraq, jihad, jeddah, feature

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ReallySad 25 Jan 2010 08:45 am

This news didn't surprised me at all. Some people are planning to go beyond this, extremely. Where ever the man is, with 2 witnesses standing besides him, he will shout "DIVORCE, DIVORCE, DIVORCE" and it is ALLAH or GABREIL's job to take that news to his WIFE's ear. If his wife won't hear it then ALLAH doesn't like her and she will go to HELL after death. To go to HEAVEN, she should do good to ISLAM and the only good thing that she can do is BLEW HERSELF. BOOM .. ALLAH HU AKBAR... ALLAH HU AKBAR...