Does a wife sin if she refuses her husband's request related to marital intimacy, not out of prevention of intercourse, but because she dislikes and is disgusted by some of the things he asks for?
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The fundamental principle is the wife's obligation to obey her husband, unless the command involves disobedience to Allah Almighty, or if it causes her physical or psychological harm.
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