Does the supplication, "O Allah, if You know that in my divorce of so-and-so there is good for me in my religion, my livelihood, and the outcome of my affairs, then facilitate it for me; and if You know that in my divorce there is evil for me in my religion, my livelihood, and the outcome of my affairs, then divert it from me and divert me from it, then ordain good wherever it may be, and then make me content with it," uttered with the intention of divorce, followed by a change of mind after a disturbing dream, constitute a divorce?
There is no error in performing Istikhara concerning the matter of divorce; rather, it is the correct action when one contemplates it. Divorce did not occur by your utterance of it during Istikhara because you did not initiate it. Rather, you mentioned the word "divorce" as an expression of the matter about which you are seeking guidance from Allah, and divorce does not occur through mere expression.
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