If a man tells his wife: "If you reveal the secret of your cousin's daughter, you will be divorced," and she reveals the secret, then three months later he tells her over the phone: "By divorce, if you go to your father's house, you are not bound to me," do two divorces take place? Is reconciliation valid over the phone, or is a new marriage contract necessary after his return if the divorce has occurred?

The majority of scholars hold that a conditional divorce takes effect if the condition upon which it was suspended occurs, and this is the fatwa acted upon. So, if the husband made the divorce conditional on his wife divulging a secret and she divulged it, the divorce takes effect. If he made it conditional on her not divulging it, it does not take effect. Divulging secrets is forbidden. As for his statement: "If you go to your father's house, you are not bound to me," this is a kinaya (allusive term). If he intended divorce by it, she is divorced upon her going, and his intention is to be considered: whether he intended to prevent her absolutely or for a specific period. If he did not intend divorce by it, but rather another meaning, then if she goes to her father's house and the husband violates what he swore upon, the divorce takes effect. In the case of one or two pronouncements of divorce, he may take her back during her 'iddah (waiting period) without a new marriage contract. If it is the third pronouncement, she does not become lawful for him unless she marries another man, consummates the marriage with him, and then he divorces her or dies, and her 'iddah ends.