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Is the wife considered to be irrevocably divorced by three pronouncements, or is it considered a single oath, after the word of divorce was repeated four times and the statement "and at every time you are divorced" was uttered during an argument?

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The majority of scholars hold the view that if a man says to his wife, "You are divorced by three," or repeats the word of divorce three times intending to effect three divorces, then she is divorced by three. This is the authoritative fatwa. Some scholars are of the opinion that divorce pronounced with the word "three," or successive divorces without a new marriage contract or reconciliation, counts as a single divorce. The divorce of an angry person is valid unless the anger reached a level that caused loss of consciousness, making the speaker unaware of what he was saying. If you pronounced the divorce while being aware of what you were saying, then your wife has become irrevocably divorced from you (Bainunah Kubra), and she cannot return to you unless she marries another man (a marriage of desire), and he consummates the marriage with her, and then he divorces her or dies, and her waiting period (iddah) from him ends.

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