Is it permissible for a wife to request divorce from her husband, to whom she is contractually married but has not yet consummated the marriage, in order to return to her previous husband? And is her request considered an act of disobedience?
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You are not permitted to ask her husband to divorce her, and you have no business interfering in what occurs between them. You must distance yourself from the causes of sin.
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