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Does divorce occur with the statement "divorce upon me if I take it" when jesting and without the intention of divorce, and then one takes the item and returns it?

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If you swore an oath of divorce to take the shoe, meaning to seize it from its owner, then you have fulfilled your oath, and divorce is not binding upon you. The phrase "عليّ الطلاق" (divorce is binding upon me) is among the explicit pronouncements of divorce through which divorce occurs, whether uttered seriously or in jest. You must be cautious in the future about swearing by divorce, for it is among the oaths of the wicked.

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