What is the ruling regarding a husband’s statement to his wife: "If you leave without my permission, there will be something else besides beating"; is this considered a threat and a promise of divorce, or an implicit divorce conditioned on an event? And is there a difference between "يبقى فيه حاجة ثانية" (there will be something else) and "هيبقى فيه حاجة ثانية" (there will be something else, using a future particle)? And what is the ruling for someone who swore an oath of divorce not to do something, then broke the oath, and is in doubt whether he actually uttered the oath or not? And is one sinful if he acts upon your fatwa then it becomes clear to him that there are other things related to the fatwas that he does not remember?
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1. The questioner should stop overthinking about divorce because it entrenches obsessive thoughts, knowing that the divorce of an obsessively-preoccupied person does not take effect unless he genuinely intends it while in a state of tranquility and mental stability.
2. Your statement to your wife: "There's something else besides hitting [that could happen]" is not a conditional divorce, and nothing is binding upon you concerning it.
3. Doubt concerning a divorce oath prevents its occurrence, and nothing is binding upon you.
4. There is no blame or sin upon you in cases where there are things you do not remember.
Summary from Ftawy's records · added here
Reviewed by El Fatwa's sharia committee.
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