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Is a wife considered sinful if she orders food or groceries from a restaurant or a shop, and goes out to receive them from behind the door in the house's yard, despite her husband having forbidden her from doing so?

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A wife must obey her husband if he forbids her from going out or from ordering food and the like from outside when he is absent. It is not permissible to disobey him merely for the sake of desiring food, because doing so involves bringing a stranger into the house and speaking with him. However, if there is a necessity, such as the absence of food in the house and no one to bring it from outside, then ordering and going out are permissible. The majority of jurists hold that a woman is permitted to go out without her husband's permission if she has an urgent matter or to fulfill essential needs that cannot be dispensed with, and her husband has not provided for them.

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