Does a divorce occur due to obsessive thoughts that link ordinary words with the intention of divorce, such as linking the word "clean" with divorce, or linking "an hour and a half" with divorce, knowing that these obsessive thoughts are not present at the beginning of the conversation but emerge during it?
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What was mentioned does not constitute a divorce, and the marriage bond is not dissolved by such delusions and imaginings. Therefore, fear Allah and turn away from these whisperings.
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