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Does divorce occur via electronic messages? Does divorce occur during pregnancy? Is a lack of awareness of consequences considered in divorce rulings?

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The ruling on writing an explicit divorce (talaq) in mobile phone messages without uttering it orally is a matter of scholarly disagreement. However, if the divorce is pronounced verbally, then the divorce takes effect. The divorce of a pregnant woman is also valid. Since you have divorced your wife with three pronouncements, being fully aware, all your divorces are valid, and the woman has become irrevocably separated from you (baynunah kubra). You cannot take her back unless she marries another man willingly, and he consummates the marriage with her, and then he divorces her or dies, and her waiting period (iddah) expires. Since she is irrevocably separated from you, she is a stranger to you, and it is not permissible for you to interact with her except through righteous women.

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