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However. a man can get married to a woman and her aunt's or
uncle's daughter at the same time. This is simply because a man
is not allowed to marry his own sister or aunt - consequently,
he may not marry two women whose relationship to each other is
within the prohibited degree (i. e. sisters or aunt and niece).
However, when a man divorces a woman he can, after the interim
period (Al! Iddah), get married to the woman's aunt, brother's
daughter or sister's daughter.
2. The woman who has been divorced three times: Although Islam
allows a man to divorce his wife. there are some restrictions and
limitations. A man can remarry his divorced wife, if the divorce is
for the first or second time. However, if the divorce is for the
third time, a man can not remarry his divorced wife unless she first
gets married to another man, who then either divorces her, or dies
(as we shall discuss later) and her marriage to the other man must be
a proper marriage with a contract and must be consummated, after which
she can remarry her former husband as the Qurlan makes clear in this
verse:
"so if a husband divorces his wife, (irrevocably)
he can not, after that, remarry her until after
she has married another husband and he has divorced
her. In that case, there is no blame on either of them
if they re-unite, provided they feel that they can keep the
limits ordained by God. " 1
3. Getting married to a fifth wife : If a man has four wives, he
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can not get married to a fifth wife until he divorces one of his
four wives and until the interim period of his divorced wife is over
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