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Does divorce take effect with the words "You are divorced, divorced, divorced," accompanied by the mention of the wife's name, if said imaginatively and not in the wife's presence?

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"Thoughts that cross one's mind have no effect, and no divorce is necessitated by them. The same applies if one utters them, as it is a promise of divorce, and one is not obligated to fulfill it. Similarly, one should not pay attention to dreams during sleep or to whispers (waswas); for these are from Satan."

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