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Definition :

Iddat, means the time of probation which a divorced woman or widow must wait before she marries again in order to determine whether she is pregnant, is called iddat, if, during the period of iddat, marriage is performed by a divorced woman, it is illegal. The period is four months and ten days according to the Mohammedan law. Even during this period the relations between her and her husband are not destroyed; and she will be entitled to maintenance by him. According to the texts, the time of iddat or term or probation allowed to a free woman is that occupied in three successive menstruation. The iddat of a pregnant woman continues until she be delivered of a child. Her husband must defray all her expenses (food, raiment, habitation, etc.) until this period is over. Such expenses to which she is entitled are called her Iddat (Mohammedan Law).