What is the ruling if a husband says, 'If you have one period, you are divorced, then if you have two periods, you are divorced'?

Chapter on Explicit Divorce and Others

Al-Mughni

Book of Divorce

Book 39 · Issue 2 · Bab 2

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If the husband says, 'If you have one period, you are divorced, then if you have two periods, you are divorced,' the second pronouncement does not take effect until she purifies from the third period. This is because the conjunction 'then' (thumma) implies sequence, requiring two full periods to occur subsequent to the first pronouncement of divorce.