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Does divorce take effect if its صيغة (wording) is in the future tense, and the husband uttered it with the intention of being rid of his wife's insistence on divorce?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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The husband's statement, "I will divorce," is a promise of divorce and not an actual divorce, unless the husband executes it. As for ambiguous phrases, such as "we need to separate" or "if you travel, I have no need for you," divorce occurs if the husband intends it, whether it is an immediate or a conditional divorce. If he does not intend divorce, then it does not occur. A clear, unconditional utterance, however, causes divorce to occur immediately, regardless of the husband's intention for it to occur in the future.

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