Does divorce take place if the son leaves the house without his father's knowledge, even though the father uttered an oath of divorce, and his intention was not to effect a divorce, and he recanted the oath, and threatened his son with the oath so that he would not leave?
The fatwa we adopt is that if a husband swears an oath of divorce and then breaks it, his divorce takes effect, whether he intended to bring about the divorce or merely to threaten or emphasize. He does not have the option to retract the oath. Therefore, your departure from the house without your father's knowledge causes the divorce to occur.
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