The verdicts of Iddah or a prescribed waiting period after legal intercourse

contemporary applications

Abstract

Islam adhered to build both the family and the society, where it exhorted to attain the destinations of Sharia, such as: the maintenance of ancestry. So it imposed Iddah or prescribed period for a woman, and it prohibited her to remarry until the expiry of Iddah of her first husband to be sure of her womb acquittal. Then his mighty God Allah defined the amount of Iddah for the immature, mature or pregnant, he arranged verdicts by prohibiting her from betrothal or wedlock during her Iddah, beside he obligated her to stay and keep her husband's home and never leave out, for her sake and away from the embarrassment or harassment. I followed the comparative analytical curriculum in this research by reviewing the opinions of the four accredited doctrines along with the law of Syrian personal affairs, if related. This research is consisted of two sections: It talked about the verdicts of the target woman after legal intercourse - It talked about the consequent impacts upon the target woman after legal intercourse. The main result: the destinations of Iddah is to keep, conserve ancestry and maintain the society, and also the varied verdicts upon the divorce or death of her husband according to the situation