Is it permissible to give one's wife a general and absolute permission to open the door to whoever comes in the husband's absence without referring to him, or for specific periods or specific people?
If you intended to make your wife's divorce conditional upon her leaving the house, and you did not intend to prevent her from opening the door absolutely, or if you doubted your intention, and the reason necessitated prevention without your permission, but not absolutely, then there is no harm in permitting her to open the door absolutely, or for specific individuals, or for a specific duration; because an oath can be specialized or generalized by intention or by its cause. However, if you made the prohibition absolute and there was no intention of restriction, then you do not have the right to restrict your oath by time or description. The majority of scholars stipulate that the specialization of an oath must be connected to an exception, and it does not benefit the swearer to make an exception after the oath is complete if he did not intend that at the time of swearing.
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