WEST BENGAL, India-

This strange story really exhibits how different cultures can be across this planet.

Imagine a woman is lying in bed and hears her husband mumbling in his sleep. Most of his mutters are inaudible gibberish, but she is able to make out one simple, but powerful statement, “Talaq, Talaq, Talaq.” And as she lay there stunned, she realizes those three words have forever changed her life.

In Muslim, ‘talaq’ means divorce. And when said three times in succession by a husband it means, ‘I divorce you, I divorce you, I divorce you’ and therefore by Muslim law, pronounces a married couple immediately divorced. This distraught couple went to their village elders seeking advise, and despite both proclaiming they wanted to remain together, were told they were officially divorced. Clerics told them they would have to remarry.

My questions is this: Since they were in bed I assume they were alone, so therefore she would have been the only one who heard him say those three dreaded words. Why didn’t she just keep her mouth shut and no one would have known any different? The only thing I can think is she believed God knew, so in his eyes they were divorced.

The moral of the story: When you are a Muslim man, try not to dream about divorcing your wife cause it may just happen.

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