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Is it obligatory to divorce my wife if she reconciled with my sister after I swore to her, "By the three divorces, if you do not stop talking, cease quarreling, and responding to your brother, I will cut you off and never speak to you again for life," and she did not comply?

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The fatwa we adhere to is that an oath sworn by divorce results in divorce if the condition sworn upon occurs. Also, a divorce pronounced with the word "triple" counts as three divorces, and the wife becomes irrevocably divorced thereby. Swearing an oath by divorce is impermissible.

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