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Does the divorce issued by an obsessive person take effect if he imagines that he uttered it and then repeated it to himself to confirm it, knowing that the Kuwaiti Encyclopedia of Islamic Jurisprudence states that "secretly divorcing oneself by making oneself hear it is like uttering it aloud"?

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Divorce does not occur through such whisperings (waswas), and you must strive to rid yourself of them by completely ignoring them, seeking help from Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, and supplicating frequently.

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