Is a wife considered disobedient for refusing to allow her husband intimacy, and is she still entitled to maintenance, given that the marriage was delayed due to difficult financial circumstances and costly conditions?
Maintenance becomes obligatory upon enabling (the wife to move in). If the wife is ready to move into her husband's house, and the delay is on his part due to his financial circumstances, then her maintenance becomes incumbent upon him according to what is customary, based on his capacity and her situation. A woman becomes legally a wife by virtue of the marriage contract, and whatever is permissible for a husband with his wife becomes permissible for him with her, while observing the custom of not engaging in intercourse until she moves into his home or the consummation is announced. The wife's obedience to her husband is not obligatory while she is in her father's house before consummation.
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