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Is it permissible to shake hands with my son's ex-wife, who claims to believe in God alone without believing in the Messengers, after she was married to my son?

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The wife of one's son is permanently forbidden to the father, a prohibition that is not lifted by divorce, annulment, or death. It is permissible to shake hands with a woman who was a son's wife and then apostatized.

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