Is it Islamically permissible for a suitor—this being an engagement without a marriage contract—to forbid his fiancée from going to a specific place?
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What the suitor said is void and nothing is built upon it. His intention to forbid marriage to you is idle, because forbidding what is lawful, except for a wife or a bondwoman, is idle. The suitor has no authority over his fiancée, and he is a stranger to her.
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