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Fatwa CenterSaying to one's wife 'You do not have any rights on me'
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Dear Brother/Sister. Assalaamu alaykum. If a man says to his wife, 'You do not have any rights on me,' does it count as divorce?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
This expression is not an explicit statement of divorce, but it is a metaphor that may mean divorce. The scholars stated that the saying of the husband (to his wife), “I have nothing to do with you,” is a metaphor of divorce, which is close to the expression in the question. Since it is a metaphor, divorce does not take place unless the husband actually intended divorce by it.
Allaah knows best.
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