Does the divorce take effect if a non-Arab speaker who does not understand the meaning intends the legal consequence of the pronouncement?

Chapter on Explicit Divorce and Others

Al-Mughni

Book of Divorce

Book 39 · Issue 2 · Bab 2

Open in Qurani

Primary text

There is a possibility that the divorce takes effect if the non-Arab speaker intends the legal consequence of the pronouncement, because he has uttered the word for divorce while intending its legal implication, thus resembling the situation of an Arab speaker.