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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on one who swore by divorce not to work, then was compelled to work

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Question:
He says: I swore by divorce that I would not work in one of the companies because its salary is low, but due to certain circumstances, I was compelled to work in that company. What is the ruling on that divorce?

Answer:
If your intention was to abstain and refrain, and you did not intend to effect the divorce if you returned to the company, then the divorce does not take place. You owe an expiation for an oath, and its ruling is the ruling of an oath. This is feeding ten poor people—ten destitute people—or clothing them, or freeing a slave. Each person is given half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), which is one and a half kilograms of dates, wheat, or rice. Half a sa', one and a half kilograms, or a shirt, or an izar and a rida' that are sufficient for prayer, or freeing a slave. If you are unable to do so, you fast for three days. This is if you did not intend the divorce, but only intended to refrain and prevent yourself from the company.
However, if you intended to effect the divorce, then the divorce takes place. If you said, "The divorce is upon me if I work at the company," and your intention was to effect the divorce, then one divorce takes place. If you work with them, you take back your wife, if you had not divorced her twice before this. You take her back. But if you only intended to refrain from being employed there, and did not intend to effect the divorce, then this has the ruling of an oath, as mentioned previously. Yes.

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Source binbaz.org.sa

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