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What is the jurisprudential ruling concerning a wife who practices sorcery, encourages her children to disobey their father, to display themselves immodestly, and to exhibit bad manners, and who expels her husband from the house and demands a divorce; and how should the father deal with his children who no longer acknowledge him?

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The wife's practice of sorcery, her incitement of the children to disobedience towards their father, her encouragement of the daughters to display themselves immodestly and adopt bad morals, and her travel without a mahram or her husband's permission, along with her suspicious dealings with foreigners, are all forbidden acts and reprehensible evils.

Inciting children to disobedience is a major sin, and it is the mother's duty to raise her children to be dutiful.

A woman's travel without a mahram or her leaving her husband's house without his permission is forbidden, and by doing so, she becomes rebellious (nashiz).

As for the children who do not greet their father, they are disobedient, and they must repent, show dutifulness to their father, and fulfill his rights.

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