Is a divorce issued by the husband while in a state of extreme anger and repeated three times valid, knowing that he took his wife back before her 'iddah (waiting period) ended in the first two times, and in the third time he said to her friend: "She is divorced," and is what he issued for the fourth time considered a divorce, and what is the ruling on the wife staying with him and her pregnancy from him, and is it permissible for her to abort the fetus?

The majority of jurists hold that the divorce of an angry person is effective unless he has completely lost his mind. Some of them do not deem it effective if his anger was intense, even if he did not lose his mind. There is no harm in acting upon the opinion of some scholars as long as the inquirer is reassured of its correctness and is not merely following his whims. The ruling of a judge resolves the dispute. It is advisable to present the matter to trustworthy scholars and act upon their opinion. As for abortion, it is not permissible.