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What is the religious ruling regarding a wife remaining with her husband, who has uttered her divorce on several occasions and in different forms, then retracted his statements with various excuses, while the wife is certain that she has become unlawful to him, and despite her filing a divorce case that will take a long time, and having no other place to go?

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The statement that if a husband takes money from his children, his wife becomes unlawful to him, is considered a divorce if he intended divorce, a Zihar if he intended Zihar, and an oath if he intended an oath or did not intend anything specific. Divorce during menstruation is valid, and divorce pronounced in anger is effective unless one completely loses their sanity. If the wife is certain that a triple divorce has occurred, it is not permissible for her to remain with the divorced husband, and she must separate from him, even through khul‘. It is not permissible for her to remain in his house in a way that involves khalwah (private seclusion), but she may stay in a separate part of the house with its own facilities, without khalwah or intermingling.

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