Is the husband's saying to his wife, "You are of no use to me" (literally: "What is useful to me") or "You are of no use with me" (literally: "You are not useful with me") considered among the allusive (kinayah) divorce pronouncements that require intention, given that he does not recall his intention at the time of utterance or thereafter?
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The statement "it does not benefit me" or "it does not work for me" is not among the كنايات (allusions/indirect expressions) of divorce. Therefore, divorce does not occur by it, whether intended or not, because it does not originally bear the meaning of divorce. It is advisable to turn away from obsessive thoughts.
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