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Are the words I uttered, which include threatening to return the wife to her family's home if she does not comply with a certain command, considered among the allusive (kinayah) divorce pronouncements that effect a divorce, or are they merely a promise to effect it in the future?

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What your friend said is true; divorce is not entailed by what you said, for the mentioned phrases are promises, assumptions, and allusions that lack the intention of divorce. Therefore, do not pay attention to the [whispers of] misgivings.

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