Exclusive: Divorcing actress on movie set doesn’t affect actor’s real-life partner—Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi

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By Ismail Auwal & Abba Gwale

  • It’s alien to Islam, says Dr Abduljabar Kabara

A leading Islamic scholar in the country, Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi, has given his position on the controversy about divorce in a movie set, which some clerics have opined that its pronouncement automatically triggers the termination of the actor’s wife in real life, if he has any.

This also came as another scholar, Dr Abduljabbar Nasir Kabara, described the controversy as needless, as the original fatwa has no connection to Islam.

Reacting to the controversial fatwa in an audio exclusively obtained by SAHELIAN TIMES, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi said divorcing an actress in a movie set will not terminate the marriage contract of the actor’s wife in real life.

“If he divorces his purported wife in a film, his wife at home is not affected because his intention is not to divorce his wife in real life,” he observed.

The scholar who gave the analogy of “auren visa”, a kind of marriage contract that only exists on a passport to satisfy Saudi Arabian visa requirement to buttress his position.

“Can a man consummate a purported marriage that was done with the intent of securing the Saudi Arabian Visa, even though the couple have claimed to be husband and wife?,” he rhetorically queried.

The Sheikh, however, noted that if the actor is making the appearance with his real life wife in the movie and makes the pronouncement the marriage is automatically terminated because his intention is not enough in this case.

He further quoted a saying of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, “There are three matters that are considered serious in both serious and non-serious talk: marriage, divorce, and returning a wife who was divorced a non-terminal divorce“, to corroborate his position.

In similar vein, Sheikh Abduljabbar, the leader of Kadiriyya Riyadhul Jannah, also in an interview with SAHELIAN TIMES today at the annual Khatma Maulud held in Sani Mainagge, Gwale Local Government dismissed the controversial fatwa as alien to the religion.

“There’s no any sense in it, and it has no distant or close relationship with Islam,” said Dr Abduljabbar.

It will be recalled that earlier this month, a video went viral on the internet, showing Dr. Bashir Umar Aliyu, issuing a fatwa on the subject matter, generating a lot of reactions on social media, with many people condemning the proposition.

However, the scholar would later receive the backing of some of his counterparts, including Sheikh Umar Sani Fagge among others.

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