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Is a divorce pronounced with the words, "You are divorced, divorced, divorced, a million times divorced," valid when uttered in a state of extreme anger and high blood sugar?

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Your being divorced while angry and intoxicated does not prevent the divorce from taking effect, unless you were not aware of what you were saying. If you pronounced the divorce while aware, then your divorce has taken effect. Al-Ruhaibani said: "Divorce takes effect from one who is angry, and whose intellect has not completely departed." And since the divorce occurred with the phrase "divorced a million times," it is considered three divorces according to the majority of scholars. Al-Sarakhsi said: "If he said to her: 'You are divorced a thousand times,' three divorces take effect on her." And Ulaysh said: "If he intended to initiate divorce by saying to his neighbor: 'I divorced her seventy times,' three divorces would be binding on him." And Al-Shirbini said: "And if he said: 'You are divorced by the number of types of earth...' or 'O one hundred times divorced,' or 'You are one hundred times divorced'; three divorces take effect." And Ibn Qudamah said: "And if he said: 'O one hundred times divorced,' or: 'You are one hundred times divorced'; she is divorced three times. And if he said: 'You are divorced like a hundred,' or 'a thousand,' then it is three." Ibn Taymiyyah holds the view that divorce pronounced three times or more counts as one, and that divorce at the time of severe anger is not effective.

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