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BHOPAL, TIMES NEWS NETWORK: After a three-day convention, the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Sunday adopted a model "nikahnama", which advocated the utterance of "talaq" once instead of thrice when a Muslim male wanted a divorce from his wife.

A "triple talaq" meant a final and irrevocable separation, "talaq" pronounced once signified a divorce which could be revoked. Utterance of talaq thrice should be avoided, the Board suggested at the convention at the Taj-ul-Masajid Mosque.

Titled the Bhopal Declaration, the Board laid down a set of guidelines to define marriage and read out the rights and responsibilities of both husband and wife in a Muslim marriage.

"In case of a total breakdown of a marriage, there is provision for divorce in Islamic laws," explained Abdul-ur-Rahim Qureshi, the secretary of the board, and added: "Islam does not believe that one has to live through a bad marriage. But 'talaq' is also the most detestable concept in the eyes of Allah. So unless it becomes absolutely inevitable, the man should not divorce his wife."

Qureshi said: "...And when he sincerely feels that the marriage cannot continue, then we suggest he should pronounce 'talaq' just once, not thrice. After pronouncing talaq once, there is a three-month period called 'iddat' whereby he can contemplate on the graver repercussions of divorce. Elders of the family can help sort out the differences and divorce can be revoked. Our intention is to lessen the number of divorces and to amicably settle differences between couples."

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