Hindi → English transcript

Listen, what is this halala? Oh man! Halala is when a married woman is made halal.

Like when they slaughter a goat? Just kill it off?

No, no, no, that halal is different. Yeah.

This is kind of similar to that too. Yeah. Okay. But why does this happen?

Wait a second. This happens if,

say, you got married to a Muslim boy. Oh no, man!

And things didn’t work out between you.

You couldn’t make good flatbread in his house. Yeah. You made all crooked,

misshapen bread.

Yeah. Or you just keep giving birth to girls,

you are simply not giving birth to a boy. Then he will divorce you.

You cannot give a divorce,

women don’t really get a say in that in Islam anyway.

So does that mean boys don’t get halaled? Brother, duh. Only girls get halaled.

It has always been the girl getting halaled till today. Okay. In every religion.

So the boy will say“ talaq, talaq, talaq” to you three times, and you are divorced.

So divorce just happens like that? Just by saying it?

Triple talaq, that’s been removed now. Now your husband has divorced you.

Yes. Now he’s regretting it.

That, man, she was the right one for me.

I mean, you were the right one for me. Okay.

Now he wants to come back to you again. Where does he want to come back?

Oh, he doesn’t want to come back anywhere,

he wants to make you his wife again. Okay. After divorcing you. Yes. I understand.

So now he cannot make you his wife directly. Why? He cannot marry you

directly now. Why? Because you just got divorced from him.

Yes. So now you will marry someone else.

He will be the one to get that done, it will be managed, it will be arranged.

Now you have become haram for him. Oh, I swear on my mother!

So now he will get you married to his father, his uncle, or his younger brother,

meaning someone who is your brother- in- law, or to some maulvi. Yes.

I mean he’ll get you married to anyone, even a dog or a cat.

And that marriage has to be legal. Meaning?

There will be a proper wedding night and all.

Her father will… you get what I’m saying, right? Everything will happen?

It will be in detail, not a single thing should be left out.

And then the one you are married off to,

that same person will also divorce you.

Then he will do triple talaq again with the one you got married to.

So if he has his father marry me,

then his father will do everything with me. Yes.

Hmm. Then after that he will divorce me, divorce, divorce, divorce. Yes.

But what if his father starts to like me? And he didn't give a divorce?

And he didn't give a divorce, then what will happen? Then the halala did not happen.

The man who used to be your husband is now someone whose mother you have become.

Will he call me Ammi? Now Ammi will say it.

He will look at you through Ammi’s eyes.

And here, the halala did not succeed. But if her father divorces you,

after that… Yes. The boy can marry you again. But here it is not remarriage,

now it has become a“ third- time” marriage, right. Yes. First the boy did it once,

then the boy’s father did it,

now again the boy will marry you. Yes. So this is called halala.

Three times, halala. Using the name of halala, he is letting the whole family

enjoy a woman. In the name of halala,

divorce again and again— divorce, divorce, divorce— then halala.

Then do it with the father- in- law, then do it with the maternal- uncle- in- law,

then do it with the paternal- uncle- in- law. So this is their ritual,

their tradition, there is nothing wrong in it. For them this is right, brother.

Fine, he wants to divide up the woman for the whole family to consume

in the name of halala.