Zihar

Zihar or Dhihar (Arabic: ظھار) (Arabic pronunciation: [ðˤihaːr]; Ẓihār): /ˈziːˈhɜːr/; ZEE-hu-Er；is a term used in Islamic Jurisprudence, which literally connotes an admonition by Allah to the believers. During pre-Islamic Arabia, Dhihar, was a practice in which a referred to his wife as his mother or by uttering that, “you are, to me, like my mother”. ^[1][2][3] This constitutes as a form of revokable divorce (although it is invalid). If a husband says these words to his wife, it is highly unlawful for him to have sexual intercourse with her unless he recompense by freeing a slave, fasting for two successive months, or feeding sixty poor people.^[4]