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The short answer is:

makruh tanzihi are those things or acts which are discouraged. There is reward for leaving them, but no punishment for engaging in them.


for a more detailed answer look here:
https://questionsonislam.com/question/it-haram-insist-committing-makruh-tanzihi

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The article tries to say this is an extremist viewpoint.
The fact is that this is what Islam teaches and how their prophet did things. (and that whack-o never did anything wrong and should be emulated in ALL aspects of life. )
If what the religious leader said was not true to the ways of Islam do ...

Your information is mostly correct but the waiting time is incorrect.


There are three different conditions that set the waiting period or iddah.

1. separated/divorced before the couple had intercourse. No waiting period.

O you who believe: When you marry believing women and then divorce them ...