LessonsIbarat, Isharat, Dalalat and Iqtida of Text: Four Routes to Legal MeaningQuiz

أَنْتِ طَالِقٌ
“You are divorced.”

The source includes this formula among discussions of iqtida, connecting its legal operation with the necessary presupposition of an effected divorce. The point here is the technical role of what must be understood for the expression to function legally.

This is not a ruling on any real marriage or divorce. Applying such language to an actual case requires the full factual and legal circumstances, not an isolated curricular example.

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Ibarat, Isharat, Dalalat and Iqtida of Text: Four Routes to Legal Meaning

أَنْتِ طَالِقٌ
“You are divorced.”

The source includes this formula among discussions of iqtida, connecting its legal operation with the necessary presupposition of an effected divorce. The point here is the technical role of what must be understood for the expression to function legally.

This is not a ruling on any real marriage or divorce. Applying such language to an actual case requires the full factual and legal circumstances, not an isolated curricular example.