When divorce takes effect based on the arrival of a conditional letter.

Chapter on Explicit Divorce and Others

Al-Mughni

Book of Divorce

Book 39 · Issue 5 · Bab 2

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If a man writes, 'If my letter reaches you, then you are divorced,' the divorce takes effect at the moment the letter arrives to her. If the letter is lost and never reaches her, the divorce does not occur because the condition of its arrival was not fulfilled.