Is it recommended and commendable for the husband—after advising her—to divorce his wife if he feels that she hinders his increased piety due to her inclination towards worldly life, or her pressuring him for expenses, or her neglect of prayer, or her extravagant recreational demands that waste his time? This is by analogy with the reason for the revelation of Allah's saying: "O Prophet, say to your wives, 'If you should desire the worldly life...'"?

The noble verse in which the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, gave his wives a choice, does not indicate the desirability of divorcing a woman who is negligent in her religious duties. Rather, it is one of the Prophet's specific prerogatives, so that he would not compel his wives to endure the poverty he chose for himself.

As for the ruling on divorcing a wife who is negligent in her religious duties, some scholars have explicitly stated its desirability if the husband is unable to reform her, while others have gone so far as to say it is obligatory.