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Does saying to one’s wife, ‘you are perfectly wrong for me’ count as a divorce if one did not mean what they said?

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Does saying to one’s wife, ‘you are perfectly wrong for me’ count as a divorce if one did not mean what they said?

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In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

None of what you mentioned counts as a divorce. The words ‘you are perfectly wrong for me’ do not count as a divorce.

Divorce only occurs when one says one of two types of expressions.

(1) Explicit words whose meaning is only used for divorce, such as ‘you are divorced.‘ [Quduri, al-Mukhtasar]

(2) Indirect expressions that entail the meaning of divorce and other possible meanings; such expressions are not considered divorce unless one intended divorce when saying them or the situation indicates that one intended divorce. [Quduri, al-Mukhtasar]

Your singing to your wife the above words does not meet either of the above expressions.

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch

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