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Are the two phrases, "Keep your daughter with you" and "Whatever you want will happen," uttered by the husband, considered a divorce, especially since the husband later admitted that his intention with the first phrase was divorce, and the second occurred after he returned his wife to her family and said, "I reject you from within, and I will send you to your family"?

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The husband's statements to his wife, "Keep your daughter with you" and "I reject you from within," are implicit divorce pronouncements (kinayat al-talaq). If the husband intended divorce by them, then separation occurs, and the woman would have been divorced twice. However, his statement to her family, "Whatever you want will happen," is not an expression of intent for divorce. Similarly, his statement, "I will send you to your family," does not constitute divorce because it is a promise, and sending her to her family is an action that does not cause separation, as implicit divorce occurs through speech, not action.

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