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Does divorce occur due to obsessive-compulsive disorder that causes the divorcer to doubt that he pronounced divorce, despite not remembering doing so?

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Divorce does not occur through doubt therein, for certainty is not dispelled by doubt. One must distance themselves from these whisperings (waswas) and repent to Allah from viewing forbidden things.

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