Do the phrases you uttered to your family—such as "It's not up to her if she likes it; otherwise, she can go to her mother, and may God make it easy for her"—constitute a divorce for your wife, even though you did not intend a conditional divorce, but rather meant that you would give her a choice or divorce her in the future if she did not agree?
Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 2026
Divorce does not occur with these phrases, because divorce does not take effect by promising it, even if expressed explicitly, regardless of whether the wife performs the act it is conditioned upon or not. Threatening a wife with divorce is an unsound approach, and a wife must obey her husband in what is good.
Summary from Ftawy's records · added here
Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
Read the full answer on Ftawyhttps://ftawy.com/en/questions/166323
Where this answer came from
- Source platform
- Ftawy
- Original fatwa ID
- 166323
- Added here
- . This is when the answer was added to El Fatwa, not the fatwa's date.
- Text
- Summary from Ftawy's records, reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
- Read the full ruling
- Read the full answer on Ftawy