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Does a triple divorce, uttered without prior intention and in a state of extreme anger due to health and psychological circumstances, take effect, especially given that intercourse occurred before the pronouncement of divorce and there is no desire for it to take effect at all?

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Anger has three degrees: 1. Mild anger: Divorce occurs with it, by agreement of scholars. 2. Severe anger that removes reason: Divorce does not occur with it, by agreement of scholars. 3. Severe anger that does not completely remove reason, but the person cannot control himself: The more probable opinion is that divorce does not occur in this case, and this is the choice of Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and his student Ibn Al-Qayyim.

And if the husband pronounces divorce three times in any of these situations, only one divorce counts according to the more probable opinion.

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