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Does a man's divorce of his wife take effect if he says "you are divorced" without intending divorce, but rather intending to swear an oath of divorce by saying "you are divorced if I do such-and-such," yet his tongue stumbled and stopped at "you are divorced," while he had just woken up from sleep?

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If you utter "You are divorced" and intend to make the divorce contingent on your wife's return to a bad answer, and you do not utter the condition itself, then the divorce does not take effect religiously, provided the wife does not return to such a bad answer. The matter depends on your intention.

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