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Does a man's divorce of his wife count if he was in a state of extreme anger, knowing that it was the third divorce?

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Divorce during a period of purity in which the husband has had intercourse with his wife is an effective divorce. Anger that does not remove one's sanity does not prevent the occurrence of divorce. This is the opinion of the majority of scholars. Accordingly, since you divorced your wife three times, she has become irrevocably separated from you, and you cannot take her back unless she marries another man—a marriage of genuine desire, not for the purpose of making her lawful for you—and he consummates the marriage with her, and then he divorces her or dies, and her iddah (waiting period) expires. We advise you to present your case to trusted scholars or to a Shariah court.

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