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Is the phrase "May God open (the way)" considered a euphemism for divorce? Is renewing one's faith, uttering the two testimonies (Shahadatayn), and performing ritual purification (ghusl) with the intention of embracing Islam after an act one believes to be disbelief, a matter of obsessive doubt (waswasa) or a precaution? What is the ruling on someone who believes they have committed an act of disbelief when they have not? And if an act necessitating separation occurs from the husband before consummation, and the contract is not renewed, does it count as another divorce?

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What you mentioned does not remove the wife from the husband's authority. He must stop these obsessive thoughts. The mere belief of a husband that he has divorced his wife is not considered a divorce unless something that necessitates it is issued from him. If the husband divorced his wife before consummating the marriage, she becomes irrevocably separated from him with a minor irrevocable divorce upon the first pronouncement of divorce. However, if he divorces her before the marriage contract is even concluded, the divorce is void because it did not occur to a valid subject.

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