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Is it considered a sin to abandon someone and prevent them from seeing their wife, due to their continuous attempts to sabotage the marriage and threaten their lives, despite repeated attempts to reconcile?

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The man mentioned is your wife's maternal uncle, and he is a perpetual mahram to her. He is allowed to see what mahrams are permitted to see. They must maintain ties of kinship, provided there is no fear of fitna (temptation/strife). If fitna is highly probable, he should be treated like a non-mahram, and kinship ties can be maintained by phone or by speaking from behind a veil in the presence of the husband, if fitna is then avoided. The questioner should strive to maintain ties of kinship; if the other party refuses, then there is no blame upon him.

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