JAMB - Islamic Religious Knowledge Irk (2015 - No. 21)
The practice of comparing the back of one's wife to that of one's mother as a method of divorce was known as
faskh
lian
zihar
ila
ახსნა
Zihar is illegal and considered an insult in the Islamic law. It implies that the man, declaring his wife akin to his mother or sister, is guilty of the sin of forbidding the lawful things. It has been proscribed by law and the act does not ensue in divorce. It is condemned in the law.