مطلقه رجعيه؛ زوجه حقيقي يا زوجه حكمي؟

Mutallaqah Rajʹʹiyyah, True or Presumed Wife?

وجود حقوق و تكاليفي براي مطلقه رجعيه و شوهرش در مدت عده باعث شده كه برخي فقها مطلقه رجعيه را در مدت عده در حكم زوجه و برخي او را زوجه حقيقي بدانند. از جمله اين حقوق و تكاليف، وجود رابطه توارث، حق نفقه، عدم جواز ازدواج شوهر با خواهر مطلقه رجعيه و... است. در مقاله حاضر با تبيين تفاوتهايي كه ميان دو نظر زوجيت حقيقي و زوجيت حكمي از نظر ماهيت طلاق، ماهيت رجوع و عملكرد آن وجود دارد، به تبيين ادله زوجه حقيقي بودن مطلقه رجعيه پرداخته شده است.

Existence of some rights and duties for mutallaqah rajʹiyyah (a divorced woman whose husband may return to her by revoking the divorce) and her husband during ʹiddah (waiting period) provoked some jurists (fuqaha) to believe that such a woman is still a true wife (zawjah haqiqiyyah) and others to believe her a presumed wife (zawjah hukmiyyah). Among these rights and duties are: inheritance between husband and wife, the wifeʹs right to maintenance, prohibition against the husbandʹs marriage to his wifeʹs sister, and so on. Having explained the differences between the two viewpoints regarding such matters as the nature of divorce, the nature and function of rujuʹ (a husbandʹs return to her divorced wife by revoking the divorce), this article sets forth some arguments for the mutallaqah rajiʹyyah as being a true wife.