How can the problem of holding a mixed-gender wedding party involving disobedience to Allah (music, dancing, and immodest dress) imposed by the bride's family be avoided, given that the bride will lose her fiancé if she agrees to them, while the fiancé threatens to leave her if she does not refuse to do so, bearing in mind that the couple will live in the bride's family home after marriage, and taking into consideration that the bride's agreement with her fiancé may lead to family discord?
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She is not permitted to obey her family in establishing or condoning evil. Rather, she should advise them with wisdom and clarify the impermissibility of such matters, and involve people of knowledge and righteousness. If they insist, then she should not attend the wedding nor permit it, and they will bear the sins, because the Creator's pleasure is paramount and His obedience is more obligatory.
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