Is the self-talk that occurred twenty years ago, with the phrase "If I speak to this person, I will not continue with her," considered an intention accompanying the veiled utterance (kinayah) of divorce, and does this self-talk alone, without direct confirmation to the wife, lead to the occurrence of divorce, or is it not relied upon as an intention for divorce to occur, given that it is a promise of divorce and precedes the utterance? And what is relied upon in determining the occurrence of divorce after such a long period?
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No divorce is necessitated by what was mentioned in the previous question. Doubts and whispers should be cast aside, for they are from the work of Satan, and there is no cure for them except to ignore them.
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