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Does a divorce take place if a husband holds his daughter's wedding after telling his wife, "My daughter's wedding will not take place, not even if it means your divorce"?

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The husband's statement, "My daughter's joy will not be complete, even if it means divorcing you," is not a conditional divorce tied to the occurrence of joy. Rather, it is a threat to initiate a divorce. If it were a conditional divorce, he would have said, "If joy occurs, then you are divorced," and this would be a conditional divorce according to some scholars.

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