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Does a divorce pronounced by the husband twice in a moment of anger count as valid, and is the couple's marital intimacy after such a divorce permissible or forbidden, and is expiation necessary if it is forbidden?

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Anger does not prevent the occurrence of divorce if the person pronounces it while being aware of what he is saying, unless the anger reaches a level that makes him lose consciousness and overwhelms his mind. If the divorce is effective, then it is permissible to have intercourse with the wife who has been given a revocable divorce before the expiry of her iddah (waiting period), and thereby a reconciliation occurs. She is still a wife to whom divorce, az-zihar (a pre-Islamic form of divorce), and al-ila' (vow of abstinence) apply, and it is permissible for her husband to have intercourse with her, to be in seclusion with her, and to travel with her.

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