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Is a wife obligated to obey her husband in everything, and is she not required to visit her parents after marriage, and must she serve her husband in all matters related to cooking, cleaning, and laundry, and is marriage a service rendered to the husband by his wife?

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Marriage has great objectives, such as satisfying desire, increasing offspring, ensuring the continuation of progeny, and elevating one's status. As for the wife's service to her husband, jurists have differed concerning its ruling. The preponderant opinion is that it is obligatory by custom, but marriage is not for her service, rather it is for the exchange of benefits between the spouses. The wife’s obedience is restricted to marriage and its related matters. She must maintain ties of kinship with her parents, and the husband should not prevent her from visiting them.

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