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100. Should resentment or antipathy arise between husband and wife, he is not to divorce her but to bide in patience throughout the course of one whole year # 68 |
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Divorce is strongly condemned in the Bahá’í Teachings. If,
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however, antipathy or resentment develop between the
marriage partners, divorce is permissible after the lapse of
one full year. During this year of patience, the husband is
obliged to provide for the financial support of his wife and
children, and the couple is urged to strive to reconcile their
differences. Shoghi Effendi affirms that both the husband
and wife “have equal right to ask for divorce” whenever
either partner “feels it absolutely essential to do so”.
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In Questions and Answers, Bahá’u’lláh elaborates a
number of issues concerning the year of patience, its
observance (Q and A 12), establishing the date of its beginning
(Q and A 19 and 40), the conditions for reconciliation (Q and A
38), and the role of witnesses and the Local House of Justice
(Q and A 73 and 98). In relation to the witnesses, the
Universal House of Justice has clarified that in these days
the duties of the witnesses in cases of divorce are performed
by the Spiritual Assemblies.
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