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Is it permissible to seek divorce from a husband who frequently lies, is negligent in performing the obligatory prayers and supererogatory ones, and does not heed advice, especially if there are no children yet?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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Neglecting prayer and lying are grave sins that indicate weakness in faith. The perpetrator should be advised and warned. If the husband accepts advice and is willing to change, he should be given a chance and helped. But if he insists on these acts of disobedience, the wife has the right to seek divorce from him before having children, and she incurs no sin in doing so. For a woman is like a man in the permissibility of freeing oneself from a spouse who abandons God's right.

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