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What is the ruling on obeying one's parents in divorcing a wife who is ill-tempered, difficult to live with, and prone to lying and causing harm?

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If the intention of the question is about the ruling on obeying parents if they order their son to divorce his ill-mannered and difficult wife, then it appears that obeying parents is obligatory in this situation. Sheikh Muhammad Mukhtar Al-Shinqiti said: "Divorce becomes obligatory if the woman is bad or harmful, or corrupt, and his father or mother commanded him to divorce her, then filial piety becomes obligatory upon him."

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