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What is the clarification regarding Fatwa No. 1057735 concerning the more scrupulous approach to doubt about divorce, knowing that the consensus of the imams indicates that doubt does not remove the marriage bond?

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Doubt concerning divorce does not remove the certainty of the marital bond, and this is a matter upon which there is a consensus among scholars. The principle is that "everything subject to doubt is disregarded in Islamic law." If one doubts a divorce, it does not lead to the cessation of the marital bond. Nevertheless, it is more scrupulous for a person to be cautious for himself by pronouncing a clear divorce, and then taking her back if it is not the third divorce. This is "to clear one's conscience" and to ensure that the woman becomes lawfully permissible for other men if he does not take her back. This precaution does not contradict the disregard of doubt, and it applies specifically to those who are not afflicted by obsessive doubts.

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