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*Originally posted by Aejaz: *now the worst part is if a woman is divorced by her husband she has to observe a 3 month period of Iddah!! and if God forbid her Husband passes away during her 3 month Iddah Period, then she has to return to her divorced and deceased husbands house and observe the additional 4 month 10 days and 10 nights Iddah of death.
Who wrote this rules???
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Desi mullahs did.
As Akif said, to the best of my understanding the Iddah period in Islam is NOT social isolation, it's instead a ban on remarriage that prevents paternity problems.
If a man's wife dies, and 2 days later he goes and remarried and impregnates a new wife, it will be easy enough to know that the baby is his son and his new wife's son.
On the other hand, if a woman is impregnated by her husband, who dies the next after conception (say, in a natural disaster), and the woman remarries the next day and gives birth 9 months later ... how would one be able to tell who the father is ?(assuming she is in a position where DNA testing is not available, and even with DNA testing there is a statistical probablity of misleading results)