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Did the three divorce declarations, which occurred as follows, take effect: the first was conditional on the wife leaving the house, the second was over the phone with the utterance "you are divorced," and the third was conditional on specific actions such as leaving her parents' house or smoking without permission?

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The second divorce pronouncement, "You are divorced," is an explicit divorce that does not require an intention, and the wife can be taken back before the 'iddah (waiting period) ends. As for the other two phrases, "If you leave the house, consider yourself divorced," and "Consider yourself divorced if you leave the house," they are implicit divorce pronouncements whose validity depends on intention. If he intended divorce, it occurs; otherwise, it does not. If the last divorce completes the three, then the wife is unlawful to him and she does not become lawful for him until she marries another husband. The divorce of an angry person is valid as long as he has not lost awareness of what he is saying.

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