Is the husband’s statement, "If you wish that I never show you my face again, then I am ready," considered a divorce, especially since the wife was the one who suggested the separation, and does this statement signify one of the explicit divorce pronouncements mentioned by Al-Shafi'i, such as "separation" (al-firaq)?

The phrase mentioned does not constitute a divorce, as it is not an explicit pronouncement thereof, and the husband did not intend divorce by it. Even if he were to say, "If you wish me to divorce you," divorce would not occur unless the husband pronounced it. One must be wary of obsessive doubts (waswasa) and rely on consulting scholars for matters of knowledge and jurisprudence, rather than on mere personal reading and understanding.