Does divorce occur and the wife become unlawful to her husband if the husband says to his wife: "You are unlawful to me if you do such and such," and then the wife does that act with the husband's intention of divorce, and what is the ruling on the intercourse that took place between them during the waiting period without the husband's knowledge and the wife's forgetfulness?
Divorce occurs when the wife is declared unlawful with the intention of divorce. If the husband has intercourse with his wife after declaring her unlawful and before the expiration of her waiting period (iddah), she returns to his wedlock. However, he must be informed that a divorce has occurred so that he is aware of the reduction in the number of divorces.
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