Does divorce occur with the statement, "If you cook that meal, I will divorce [you]," or "If you cook that meal, you are divorced," if the intention was jest and there was no intent of divorce, and is that considered a conditional or explicit divorce, or merely a doubt?

Whoever utters the words of divorce, their divorce takes effect, whether said seriously or in jest.

As for the husband's statement, "If you cook... I will divorce," this is a promise of divorce, and divorce does not take effect by it.

However, if he says, "If you cook... you are divorced," then divorce takes effect upon the fulfillment of the condition according to the majority of scholars. Some scholars hold the view that an expiation for a broken oath (kaffarat yameen) is required if he did not intend to effect a divorce.

Divorce is not established by doubt, because certainty is not removed by doubt.