Does a wife uttering "May you be cursed, and cursed be your father who begot you" towards her children and husband constitute divorce?
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A wife cursing her husband is not considered a divorce by scholarly consensus. However, her cursing him and their children is a great sin and a grave offense from which she must repent. This is based on the Prophet's (peace be upon him) sayings: "Abusing a Muslim is Fusuq (disobedience to Allah), and fighting him is Kufr (disbelief)," and "Do not curse with the curse of Allah, nor with His wrath, nor with Hellfire," and "A believer is not one who slanders, or curses, or speaks obscenely or indelicately."
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