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Is it permissible for a wife to seek divorce despite the recency of her marriage and her pregnancy, due to her husband's physical abuse, insult, failure to provide for her, and refusal to allow her to go to the mosque, all because she rejected his marriage to an American Muslim woman?

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A woman may seek a divorce when her husband mistreats her in an unbearable way, or fails to provide for her, or engages in forbidden acts, if she sees a benefit in separation to preserve her religion and chastity.

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