Is it permissible for a husband who has abandoned his wife for more than eleven years to divorce her nominally—in order for their son to be exempted from military service—and then take her back, and in this case, is the child attributed to his father or to his mother?
It is not permissible to use stratagem to evade military service, unless performing it would cause real harm to the son's religion or worldly affairs, or if the mother would be harmed by his absence.
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