What is the ruling on a wife saying "my husband is forbidden to me," meaning she is forbidding her husband to herself, and is expiation required of her if she returns to him and allows him to be intimate with her?
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Your friend must repent to Allah for what she said, for it is forbidden for a Muslim woman to forbid her husband to herself. If she does so, her husband does not become forbidden to her; rather, she is obligated to offer an expiation for breaking an oath.
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