Is a divorce that occurs during menstruation counted? Is it permissible to take back the wife after such a divorce? Do consecutive divorces pronounced with the words, "You are divorced, you are divorced, you are irrevocably divorced," take effect after the wife has been taken back?
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Divorce pronounced during menstruation is valid, despite being an innovative (bid'i) divorce according to most scholars, and this is the prevalent . Therefore, the wife becomes irrevocably divorced (baynunah kubra) and is not permissible for her husband unless she marries another man and he consummates the marriage with her, and then he divorces her or dies, and her ' (waiting period) from him ends. It is advisable to present the matter to trustworthy scholars in the inquirer's country.
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