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What should the questioner do about her family, who force her to commit forbidden acts and call her a hypocrite? And should she seek another husband and emigrate to leave them?

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You must put things into perspective. What your family is doing may be out of ignorance, not hostility towards religion. Hold firm to the truth, no matter how many difficulties arise or how great the obstacles become. Seek help from righteous women around you, and strive in prayer for yourself for steadfastness and for your family for guidance. Repeatedly advise your family with gentleness and kindness, and remind them of the texts of the Sharia. Be serious in enjoining good upon them and forbidding evil, for a servant's adherence to their religion is the path to their well-being in this world and the Hereafter. "Whoever does righteousness, whether male or female, while he is a believer - We will surely cause him to live a good life, and We will surely give them their reward [in the Hereafter] according to the best of what they used to do." (An-Nahl: 97).

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