What should a Muslim wife do whose husband is addicted, beats her severely, and has abandoned her, while she has refused to write to the Imam the reasons for her request for khulʿ, and the husband is absent?

First: If the description mentioned in the question is accurate, then it contains a lesson about how disobedience destroys the home and dismantles the family, indicating its ill-effects. Therefore, one must repent and abandon sins.

Second: It is surprising that the sister refrained from writing the reason for her request for divorce. She should respond to that.

Third: If the influential person who manages the affairs of the Muslim community in that town sees that there is no benefit in the continuation of the marital relationship, then he should grant her a khul' (divorce at the wife's instance) from her husband based on what they agree upon.