What is the legal status of two successive, identical divorce declarations?
Chapter on Explicit Divorce and Others
Al-Mughni
Book of Divorce
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If a husband says, "You are divorced, you are divorced," only one divorce occurs. This is because these are two independent sentences that do not depend on each other. If a condition or stipulation were attached to the second sentence, it would not encompass the first. The structure of conjunction (atf) means the conjoined term is dependent on the primary term, sharing its legal status, whereas two separate, complete sentences lack this dependency. The statement "You are divorced" is a complete, effective sentence on its own, unlike a phrase that requires context.