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Is a divorce considered to have taken place by the husband's statement: "You have 5 minutes to call your uncle to come and take you; I no longer want you. You have 5 minutes, or else I will start divorcing you, and every additional five minutes will count as another divorce," knowing that the wife did not call, and the couple reconciled and life returned to normal? And is this considered one divorce or more?

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The husband's statement, "I don't want you," is a veiled expression (kinayah) through which divorce occurs if he intends it. However, his statement, "I will start divorcing," is a promise by itself, divorce does not occur, nor is he obligated to fulfill it. His statement, "and every five minutes another divorce," is also a promise to divorce, and no divorce results from it. Therefore, as long as the husband has not carried out his threat of divorce, no divorce has occurred to the wife.

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