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Does a divorce issued without the husband's awareness or consciousness take effect, especially given that the wife was in her postpartum period (nifas)? And what are the implications of that?

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Divorcing a woman in her postpartum bleeding (nifās) is an innovative (bid‘ī) and forbidden act, yet it is effective according to most scholars.

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