If he says: "If you enter the house, you are divorced," she is not divorced until she enters. This is the view of some of the Shafi'is. Muhammad ibn al-Hasan said: "She is divorced immediately," because he did not suspend it on entering the house; as it is only suspended by the 'fa', and this [sentence] has no 'fa', so it is an initiated statement not suspended by a condition, and thus its ruling is established immediately. Our view is that he used the particle of condition, which indicates that he intended to suspend it thereby. He merely omitted the 'fa' while it was intended, just as the subject is omitted at times and the predicate at other times, due to the remaining speech indicating the omitted part. It is also permissible that the omission of the 'fa' is based on precedence and postponement, as if he intended: "You are divorced if you enter the house," but he placed the condition first while intending to delay it. Whenever it is possible to interpret the speech of a rational person as having a benefit and to rectify it from corruption, it is obligatory to do so; in what we have mentioned, it is rectified, whereas in what they have mentioned, it is invalidated. If he says, "I intended the occurrence immediately," it occurs because he confirms against himself what is more severe. If he says: "You are divorced even if you enter the house," the divorce occurs immediately, because its meaning is: "You are divorced in every case," and your entering the house does not prevent that, like the saying of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace): "Whoever says: 'There is no god but Allah' will enter Paradise, even if he committed adultery, and even if he stole." And he said: "Maintain ties with them even if they sever you, and give to them even if they deprive you." If he says: "I intended the condition," he is to be believed regarding his intention. As for whether it is accepted in a judicial ruling, this is derived from two reported opinions. If he says: "If you enter the house, then you are divorced, and if you enter the other [house]," then whenever she enters the first, she is divorced, whether she enters the other or not, and she does not become divorced by entering the other.