Social Matters >> Talaq (Divorce)
Question ID: 51538Country: India
Answer ID: 51538
Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !
(Fatwa: 564/564/M=05/1435) What do you mean by your marriage never was consummated? If your rukhsati did not take place after nikah and also both of you did not meet in privacy before the rukhsati then in such case there is no iddah if talaq takes place after nikah. And if you mean by consummation that you met in privacy after nikah but you did not have intercourse then in such case your iddah is necessary and the husband shall be responsible for the expenses of iddah. Hence it is not lawful for you to go out of the home during iddah without a Shariah reason and compulsion.
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best
Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband, India