Does a divorce take effect or not, and is the husband bound by anything, if by his utterance he intended threat and intimidation without the intention of divorce?
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If the husband did not intend divorce but rather a threat, then no divorce occurs, and nothing is binding on him. The wife must not ask for divorce without a legitimate reason; as the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Any woman who asks her husband for divorce without any [justifiable] cause, the scent of Paradise will be forbidden to her."
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