What is the appropriate action, pleasing to Allah Almighty, to take toward a religiously committed but adulterous husband, especially given the presence of children and the dilemma between divorce and preserving the family, and what is the ruling on remaining in a house purchased with a usurious loan?
The trial of women is the most harmful trial for men, and it was the first trial for the Children of Israel. Therefore, Islamic law has forbidden private seclusion with foreign women, looking at them, shaking their hands, and mixing with them. A wife should remind her husband of the fear of Allah and seek out the reasons that led him to fall into forbidden acts and address them. She might be falling short in his conjugal rights. Employing female domestic workers has many corrupting effects in Muslim households. As for a fornicating husband, she should admonish him and instill in him the fear of Allah Almighty. If he does not respond, she should seek a divorce from him or khul'. The danger of a fornicating husband does not cling to him alone but extends to his children and wife. She must repent and strive to separate from him. As for the house purchased with an interest-based loan, she must hasten to pay it off and rid herself of it, along with repentance and remorse.
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