Is the phrase "I do not want a deceitful wife," uttered in a context of anger, considered a divorce, given that the speaker did not intend divorce and it was a slip of the tongue?
The statement "I do not want a lying wife" is not an explicit pronouncement of divorce. Rather, it is an implicit expression (kinayah) by which divorce does not occur unless the husband intends it. Therefore, as long as the husband did not intend divorce by it, no divorce ensues from it.
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