Does the phrase "Had I known the impermissibility before you, I would have divorced you" constitute a conditional divorce if the husband admits to knowing a girl after his wife presents evidence of it?
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It seems the questioner has anxieties and obsessive thoughts about conditional divorce ( mu'allaq), and answering his questions will only increase his waswasah (obsessive whispering/thoughts). It suffices for him to know that the divorce pronounced by someone suffering from waswasah does not take effect, even if he utters an explicit, immediate divorce. What the questioner uttered is not of the nature of conditional divorce as mentioned by jurists; rather, it is merely a statement of information that does not result in divorce. One should be careful not to be lenient in uttering words of divorce, especially for those who experience waswasah.
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