Does the husband's statement to his wife, "What is between us has ended," after a dispute over her work and her move to her family's home, constitute a divorce, knowing that he did not intend divorce but rather to pressure her to reverse her decision?
A husband's statement to his wife, "What is between us has ended," is a veiled (kinayah) divorce, and divorce does not occur with it except if intended. We note that the layman's madhhab (school of thought) is the madhhab of the one who gives him a fatwa, and it is not permissible for the wife to go out to work without her husband's permission unless there was a prior condition in the marriage contract; otherwise, she is disobedient (nashiz).
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