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Does the divorce of "If you open the door to him, you are divorced" occur if the wife only cleans the room door without opening it, and does the matter end with the child leaving the room?

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The husband's statement to his wife, "If you open the door to him, then you are divorced," is a conditional divorce that takes effect upon the fulfillment of the condition, unless the husband intended only prevention and threat without divorce, in which case it would have the ruling of an oath. If the husband intended to restrict the wording to a specific time or place, it is restricted accordingly. So, if he intended to prevent her from opening the door at that moment and she did not open it then, but opened it later or for another purpose, the divorce does not occur. Intention is considered in this matter; it specifies the general wording and restricts the absolute, provided it accompanies the utterance. Therefore, divorce does not occur in this case, and one should be careful about uttering divorce.

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