Talāq is the most hated of the permissible things to Allah — it is permitted only at need. The legislated form is to divorce the wife in a state of purity in which the husband has not had relations with her, then to leave her until her ʿiddah ends — this is one revocable divorce. Three pronouncements at one sitting is, on the most authentic position (the view of Ibn 'Abbas, Ibn Taymiyyah, and a group of the Salaf), counted as one. Khulʿ is the wife's right when she dislikes the marriage; she returns the dowry and the marriage is dissolved. Remarriage to a thrice-divorced wife is not permitted until she marries another genuinely (not by halāla, which is cursed).