Zihar

"İki şey arasında münasebet ve mutabakat meydana getirmek. İki şeyi birbirine mutabık eylemek. Arka arkaya, mukabil kılmak. * Karşılıklı yardımlaşmak. * Fık: Bir kocanın, karısını müebbeden mahremi olan birisinin bakması câiz olmayan bir yerine teşbih etmesi.Meselâ, bir adam karısına, ""Sen bana anam gibisin"" demesi gibi. Bu halde karısı da ona haram olurdu. İslâmiyetten evvel câhiliyet âdetleri olan ve bir nevi boşanma usulü sayılan bu çeşit hareketi İslâmiyet men'etmiştir ve zecr için zıhar eden kimseye keffaret vaz' olunmuştur. (O.L.)"

" kocanın karısına ""sen anam gibisin"" demesi."

In pre-Islamic times the Arabs practiced a form of divorce which amounted to the husband's reciting the formula, 'You are to me as my mother's back (zahr)', a practice referred to as zihar. Although Islam forbids zihar (cf. Qur'an 33:4, 58:2), if a man should recite this formula to his wife--or an equivalent formula, by substituting a reference to any other female forbidden to him-sexual intercourse with his wife is forbidden to him. Zihar's conditions are the same as those of divorce; hence in Shi'ism two witnesses must hear the formula recited.

In pre-Islamic times the Arabs practiced a form of divorce which amounted to the husband's reciting the formula, 'You are to me as my mother's back (zahr)', a practice referred to as zihar. Although Islam forbids zihar (cf. Qur'an 33:4, 58:2), if a man should recite this formula to his wife--or an equivalent formula, by substituting a reference to any other female forbidden to him-sexual intercourse with his wife is forbidden to him. Zihar's conditions are the same as those of divorce; hence in Shi'ism two witnesses must hear the formula recited.