Is it possible to take back one's wife after the husband has uttered the divorce three times consecutively, and a divorce decree has been issued to that effect, knowing that approximately three and a half years have passed since the divorce?
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The relied-upon is that the statement "You are divorced, you are divorced, you are divorced" effects a single divorce if the reiteration was not intended to effect more than one. It effects three divorces if three were intended. If nothing was intended, then it is a single divorce. The wife could have been taken back before the ' expired. If the 'iddah expired without reconciliation, the wife became irrevocably separated, and a new contract is required for her return.
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