Separation Of The Married Couple

Allah, Blessed and Most High, says: And it is not lawful for you (men) to take back (from your wives) any of your (bridal-money) which you have given them, except when both parties fear that they would be unable to keep the limits ordained by Allah. Then if you fear that they would not be able to keep the limits ordained by Allah, then there is no sin on either of them for what they give back [Al-Baqarah:229] This writ was written by so and so, the daughter of so and so, who is in good health and in full control of her wealth, to so and so the son of so and so the son of so and so. I was a wife to you, and you came in to me, and consummated the marriage with me. Then I did not like your company, and I wanted to leave you, without your having done any harm to me, nor having withheld any of my rights. I asked you, when we feared that we would not be able to keep the limits ordained by Allah, to free me (Khul') and to divorce me irrevocably in return for all my Sadaq (Mahr) that is due from you to me, which is such-and-such a number of Dirhams, non-counterfeit, and such-and-such a number of Dinars, non-counterfeit, that I gave you in addition to that, apart from my Sadaq. You did what I asked of you, and you gave me an irrevocable divorce in return for what was left of my Sadaq, as stated in this writ, and in return for the additional Dinars stated. I accepted that from you verbally when we were talking about it, and in response to what you said before we finished our discussion, and departed. I gave you all the Dinars mentioned in this contract in return for which you granted me Khul, except for my Sadaq. Thus I became irrevocably divorced from you, and now I am in control of my own affairs, based on this Khul' which is described in this contract. Thus you have no control over me, you cannot make demands of me, and you cannot take me back. I have taken from you all that is due to a woman like me at the time of 'Iddah, and I took all that I need in full, which a woman like me would take from a husband like you. Neither of us has any further rights, nor claims over the other. If any one of use makes any claim on the other, this claim is totally and utterly false, and the one against whom the claim is made is innocent, and has nothing to do with this claim. Each one of us accepts everything that the other party offers, and all that the other party relieves him of, as described in the contract, verbally when we were talking about it, and before we spoke of anything, or parted from our meeting that took place. Signed by so and so (the wife) and so and so (the husband).