What is the ruling on a wife's request for independent housing away from her husband's family due to their continuous interference and threats, given the husband's refusal to move or to come to the wife's family home to resolve the issue, and the wife's desire for the marriage to continue?
It is the wife's right that her husband provides her with an independent dwelling. He is not obliged therein to separate her from his family if she has an independent dwelling with its facilities and a separate lock. It is not permissible for the wife to leave her husband's home without his permission, except out of necessity. If she leaves, she must return, and he is not obliged to bring her back. The husband should combine filial piety towards his parents with good companionship towards his wife, and he should prevent his family from harming her. If he is unable to do so, then he must move her to a dwelling where she will not be exposed to harm. It is a good quality of the wife to be kind to her husband's family and to overlook their mistakes.
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