Does divorce take effect if one says to himself, "I am separated," and is this word considered a kinayah (allusion) or a sareeh (explicit statement)? What is the ruling on a married person saying, "I am separated"? Does divorce take effect if the intention was to lie, not to divorce? And what is the meaning of "religiously, as opposed to one who jokes"?

What has been mentioned are mere whispers (waswās) by which divorce does not occur. The statement "I am separated" is not an explicit pronouncement of divorce. Doubt regarding the utterance of an explicit pronouncement does not cause divorce to occur, because the fundamental principle is the continuation of the marriage. One must turn away from these whispers and beware of succumbing to them.