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How can one reform a husband who has stopped drinking alcohol and has started praying, but does not wish to delve deeply into religion, lies, frequents cafes to play cards, and abandons prayer when angry?

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We congratulate the questioner on her repentance and commitment, and on her success in convincing her husband to stop drinking alcohol and to regularly perform prayers. However, it should be noted that her husband's refusal to read the Qur'an, watch religious lessons, and pray in the mosque, his abstention from applying the Sunnah, his habit of going to coffee shops, and his statement that he does not want to delve deeply into religion, in addition to his lying and performing prayers to please his wife rather than his Lord, are all major errors. Nevertheless, there is hope for his guidance given his extreme distance from immorality previously. She is advised to continue inviting him to righteousness, guiding him, and supplicating for his guidance. She should seize moments when he is receptive and avoid pressing him when he is angry, while remembering that guiding one man is better than red camels.

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