Is it permissible for the relationship between the parents to return to normal after the father's return home and his illness, following his absence for seven years during which he refused to return or reconcile?
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"Promising and threatening divorce, and a husband abandoning his wife, does not constitute a divorce. If the marital bond remains, then there is no harm in the relationship between the spouses resuming; in fact, this is what is Islamically encouraged."
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