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Is a husband's threat to his wife by saying, "You have one, and I will give you two," considered a divorce?

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The husband's promise to divorce his wife is not a divorce according to the consensus of jurists, and the marital bond remains. The husband's statement, "You have one, and I will give you two," is not explicit in divorce but could imply it. If he intended to effect a divorce immediately, then the divorce occurs according to his intention. If he intended the remaining two divorces in addition to a previous one, then she becomes irrevocably divorced from him and forbidden to him according to the majority of scholars. If he intended one divorce, he may take her back before the iddah (waiting period) expires. However, what is most probable is that he intended to threaten divorce, not to carry it out.

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