Does apostasy before consummation annul the marriage, and does an initial conviction that the marriage is annulled, followed by a change of mind, affect the validity of the marriage, and does a suspended divorce occur if the marriage was originally annulled?
You must be careful of apostasy due to its danger and grave consequences. Most scholars believe that the apostasy of one spouse before consummation immediately annuls the marriage, and this is the prevailing legal opinion (). If you acted according to the opinion of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, with its conditions, and believed in its validity, then your marriage is valid, and your divorce of your wife is effective. If you divorced her three times, she has become irrevocably separated from you (bainunah kubra). It is not permissible for one who believes in the validity of a marriage to base a ruling on its invalidity that aligns with his desires, for that is impermissible.
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