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Is a wife considered sinful if she still thinks of her ex-lover and wishes to separate from her husband, despite his attempts to please her, knowing that she is ignorant of the pronouncements of divorce and the jurisprudence of choice?

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First: The husband's statement, "If you want us to separate, nothing has happened," has no legal consequence, because it is a promise of divorce if the wife desires it, and a promise of divorce has no legal consequence.

Second: It is advised to be patient with the husband, to be compliant with him, and to abandon stubbornness, because the husband's right is great.

Third: The difficult circumstances faced by the mother do not mean that the daughter will encounter the same, for everyone has their own destiny. Gentleness and kindness are the way to achieve what is desired with the husband, as the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Indeed, Allah loves gentleness in all matters," and "Whoever is deprived of gentleness is deprived of all good," and "Indeed, gentleness is not in anything except that it adorns it, and it is not removed from anything except that it disgraces it," and "If Allah, the Exalted and Most High, wills good for the people of a household, He introduces gentleness among them."

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