A married man and a married woman fell in love and planned to marry. However, the woman’s husband is not prepared to divorce her and has begun to threaten her with dire consequences. How may this situation be solved within the boundary of Shari’ah? Furthermore, the woman told her husband, prior to her meeting this man that she wants to now marry, that, because he abuses her physically and verbally, she does not love him any longer and wants to leave him.

It is heinous and a major sin to fall in love with a married woman, and one is prohibited from encouraging married ladies to divorce with promises of marriage after her waiting period – iddah. For the above case there is no solution in Shari’ah other than for both the man and the woman to repent and to seek Allah’s forgiveness.
Telling her husband that she does not love him and plans to leave him does not change forbidden – haram – into permitted – halal. Both parties must safeguard themselves against hellfire.