Is it considered a divorce if a husband utters the word of divorce unconsciously and inaudibly while his wife is sleeping next to him?
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Your utterance of divorce due to obsessive thoughts, without the intention to create it, does not result in divorce. Therefore, turn away from these obsessive thoughts and pay no attention to them, for indulging them leads to evil, and turning away from them is the best cure.
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