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Does divorce take place in two cases: First, when the wife throws her phone at her husband, so the husband gets angry and says: "Divorced," without knowing whether he said it once or three times, and does it take place if he intended one while believing that a triple divorce counts as one? Second, in the case where the husband threatens his wife with divorce using the phrase "If you do such and such, consider yourself divorced," while he has forgotten the details of the threat?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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The first scenario: If the husband pronounces divorce while in a state of extreme anger that removes his awareness, then his divorce does not take effect. And if he pronounces it three times but intended one, then one divorce takes effect.

The second scenario: The phrase "consider yourself divorced" is one of the allusive expressions of divorce, so it does not take effect except with intention. If there is doubt about his intention or the occurrence of what he intended, the original ruling is that no divorce has occurred. And if he doubts whether his anger removed his awareness or not, the apparent ruling is that awareness was not removed, and divorce takes effect if he intended it and what he made it conditional upon was fulfilled.

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