If a husband responds to his wife's request for divorce by saying, "Consider us divorced as well," does this constitute a divorce if the husband denies intending it as such?
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The husband's statement, "Consider us as such," is not an explicit divorce pronouncement ( sareeh); rather, it is an indirect expression (kinayah). A divorce does not occur with it unless the husband intended it. Since the husband stated that he did not intend divorce by it, nothing takes effect. The spouses must live together amicably, and the wife should not seek divorce without a valid reason.
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