How can one deal with a husband who neglects religious obligations, drinks alcohol, stops fasting, and utters divorce in his drunkenness, while desiring to preserve the family and raise him? And could inviting him to visit the Sacred House be a means of reforming him?
It is not permissible to remain silent about the husband's abandonment of prayer, fasting in Ramadan, and drinking alcohol. Indeed, abandoning prayer is considered a major disbelief by some scholars, and it is the pillar of the religion. Abandoning the fast of Ramadan is a grave sin, and drinking alcohol is a major sin for which the perpetrator is cursed. The wife must advise him and explain the danger of his actions, and that abandoning prayer makes him a disbeliever, which dissolves the marital bond, based on the Almighty's saying: "Neither are they lawful for them, nor are they lawful for them." If he does not respond, she must refer the matter to her guardian or to the Sharia courts, and it is not permissible for her to remain with him in this situation.
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