Does a conditional divorce take effect even though the wife did not violate the condition and did not leave?
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If the husband, by saying to his wife, "You are divorced," intended to effect an immediate divorce, then the divorce occurs. If this pronouncement does not complete the three divorces, he may take his wife back during her (waiting period). However, if he intended the divorce to occur if she left, and did not intend an immediate divorce, the preponderant view is that her divorce does not religiously occur if she does not leave, because he made the divorce conditional upon a condition that was not fulfilled.
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