Is a woman obligated to continue visiting her relatives who harm her and seek to ruin her home, or should she cease visiting them and suffice with phone communication, and should she respond to their insolence?
If the relatives incite the woman to divorce without justification, they are sinful, and she must not obey them, because a woman is forbidden from seeking divorce without cause.
As for their helping her pay off her husband's debts, it is not obligatory for them, and what they offer is a kindness for which they are commended.
Maintaining kinship ties is commanded, and severing them is forbidden, even with those who sever them. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "The one who maintains ties of kinship is not the one who reciprocates, but rather the one who, when his ties of kinship are cut off, reconnects them."
Maintaining kinship ties is not limited to visits; rather, it includes calling, corresponding, greeting, and everything that custom considers to be a connection. Thus, the woman should maintain ties with her relatives in a good way, using a means and to an extent that does not harm her.
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