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 "id": "concept/ratq-fiqh",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "ratq-fiqh",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الرتق",
  "en": "Ratq (the closure of the female passage): its effect on the marriage, on the option to annul, on cure, maintenance and division",
  "ur": "رتق (فرج کی بندش)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الرتق في اللغة ضد الفتق، وفي اصطلاح الفقهاء انسداد محل الجماع باللحم أو غيره، والقرن والعفل ألفاظ قريبة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8619} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} وللزوج خيار فسخ النكاح عند المالكية والشافعية والحنابلة إذا كانت زوجته رتقاء ولم يعلم بذلك عند العقد، وقال الحنفية لا خيار. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} ويرى المالكية أنها تؤجل للتداوي إن طلبت، وأن الشافعية لا يجيزون إجبارها على الشق. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8621} وتجب النفقة للرتقاء، ويجب قسم الزوج لها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8621}",
  "en": "Ratq is the opposite of splitting; in the jurists' usage it is the closure of the place of intercourse by flesh or other matter, and qarn and 'afal are near terms. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8619} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} The Malikis, Shafi'is and Hanbalis give the husband an option to annul the marriage if he did not know of the closure at the contract; the Hanafis give none. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} The Malikis delay the case for treatment if the wife asks for it; the Shafi'is do not allow forcing the opening. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8621} Maintenance is due to her and the husband must divide his nights fairly. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8621}",
  "ur": "رتق فرج کی بندش ہے؛ اس کی بنیاد پر شوہر کو نکاح فسخ کرنے کا اختیار بعض فقہاء کے نزدیک ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8619} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship",
  "health-body-death"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «الرتق»، ص 8619-8621 من المسح",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w05-batch25"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; headword read on scan pages 8619-8621; hadiths and verses named, not typed; footnote citations omitted; Urdu is a short draft."
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الرتق في اللغة ضد الفتق، وفي اصطلاح الفقهاء انسداد محل الجماع باللحم أو غيره، والقرن والعفل ألفاظ قريبة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8619} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} وللزوج خيار فسخ النكاح عند المالكية والشافعية والحنابلة إذا كانت زوجته رتقاء ولم يعلم بذلك عند العقد، وقال الحنفية لا خيار. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} ويرى المالكية أنها تؤجل للتداوي إن طلبت، وأن الشافعية لا يجيزون إجبارها على الشق. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8621} وتجب النفقة للرتقاء، ويجب قسم الزوج لها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8621}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ratq-fiqh",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ratq is the opposite of splitting; in the jurists' usage it is the closure of the place of intercourse by flesh or other matter, and qarn and 'afal are near terms. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8619} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} The Malikis, Shafi'is and Hanbalis give the husband an option to annul the marriage if he did not know of the closure at the contract; the Hanafis give none. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} The Malikis delay the case for treatment if the wife asks for it; the Shafi'is do not allow forcing the opening. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8621} Maintenance is due to her and the husband must divide his nights fairly. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8621}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ratq-fiqh",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [],
    "status": "draft"
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "رتق فرج کی بندش ہے؛ اس کی بنیاد پر شوہر کو نکاح فسخ کرنے کا اختیار بعض فقہاء کے نزدیک ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8619} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8620}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ratq-fiqh",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [],
    "status": "draft"
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/afal",
  "concept/alaqa",
  "concept/hamil",
  "concept/janin",
  "event/death-of-fatima-bint-muhammad",
  "event/lidud-of-the-prophet",
  "screen/al-marad-al-kabir-2017",
  "building/taj-mahal"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}