The ruling on saying: “I divorce you”
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is the one who says, “I divorce you,” considered to be swearing an oath by other than Allah?
Answer:
No, he is considered to be swearing by the divorce, and it does not mean that it is an oath like swearing by Allah, but it means that it is like an oath by Allah in terms of warning, encouraging, threatening, affirming, or denying, and expiation is required for it according to some scholars. That is its meaning; it is not that it is shirk (associating partners with Allah), or shirk.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is the one who says, “I divorce you,” considered to be swearing an oath by other than Allah?
Answer:
No, he is considered to be swearing by the divorce, and it does not mean that it is an oath like swearing by Allah, but it means that it is like an oath by Allah in terms of warning, encouraging, threatening, affirming, or denying, and expiation is required for it according to some scholars. That is its meaning; it is not that it is shirk (associating partners with Allah), or shirk.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين [46] — alfawzan.live (1:14:28)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.