Rights of Spouses
1,443 questions
Is keeping a wife in her home as a "nanny" for the children, and her waiving of her marital rights—such as cohabitation and equality with the other wife—in exchange for security, protection, and maintenance, considered a divorce? Or should she be divorced to avoid suspicion and injustice?
What is the ruling on remaining silent in the face of injustice, and is a person cursed if they witness injustice and remain silent about it?
Does the wife sin and deserve punishment if she leaves to visit her relatives without her husband's knowledge, given that the husband does not spend the night with her, does not give her marital rights unless asked, prevents her from visiting her family, hits her if she disobeys him, and refuses to fulfill her requests while fulfilling the requests of his first wife and traveling with her?
Is it permissible for an employed wife, whose workplace provides her with free housing, to ask her husband to pay half the presumed rental value, and is this request considered assistance to the husband, or does she not have the right to do so, especially since the husband bears all other expenses and is suffering from financial hardship and debts?
Is a wife's departure from her husband's home to her father's home without his permission, while she is determined to divorce, considered a divorce? And does her waiting period (iddah) expire and she becomes irrevocably divorced (ba'in baynunah kubra) by her staying in her father's house for three menstrual cycles, despite her refusal to return even though the husband, who used to beat her frequently, has repented from that?
Does divorce occur if the husband says "no" to his wife when she says "Madam so-and-so," intending to negate that name because she refused to say she was a servant?
Is a woman permitted to seek divorce from a husband who does not treat her well, does not spend on her, has female friends, travels alone, and rarely has intercourse with her, given her knowledge of the Hadith: "Any woman who seeks divorce without harm, Paradise is forbidden for her"?
Do the aforementioned reasons—the instability of the marriage due to the husband's travel and his unwillingness to return and settle, differing convictions, and the wife's distrust of him due to his repeated breaking of promises and changing of decisions—permit the wife to seek divorce?
What is the ruling on an administrative manager signing off on fictitious overtime letters for employees, under the pretext of social solidarity, knowing that the work does not necessitate it, and is this considered lying and bearing false witness?
What is the ruling regarding my fiancée, who wears the niqab, working as a seller of modest clothing in a store, knowing that I object to women working, but her family circumstances necessitate her going out to work?
Is it permissible to divorce the wife who has been proven to have communicated with another person before and after marriage, or is it sufficient to keep her while marrying another and providing for the children, and is it permissible to discipline the young man with whom the wife communicated?
What should I do regarding my husband's insistence on not financially supporting our eldest daughter after she was expelled from the house because of her relationship with her cousin, and his threat to end our marital relationship if I spend from his money on her, knowing that I do not work and have no income of my own?
Is a wife obligated to remain in a marriage where the husband neglects her legitimate marital rights, such as cohabitation and affection, and prefers to sleep outside the marital bedroom, under the pretext of children and work pressure, despite her psychological suffering from this deprivation, and despite her significant financial contribution to providing for the family's needs?
How should I act with my husband who verbally abuses me, hates me, hates my family, and accuses me of having children to tie him to me, knowing that I am successful in my work and social relationships?
Is it permissible for the wife's brothers and sisters to inherit from the deceased husband's estate, knowing that the estate was the result of the joint work of both spouses, but it is registered only in the husband's name, and he has other heirs who are: (3 daughters, 1 wife, 21 full brothers, 2 full nephews, 1 full sister)?
What is the ruling regarding a wife who left her husband's home and refused to apologize after he insulted her, preferring to stay with her family along with her three children, and what are the legitimate rights of the spouses in the event of a divorce due to her stance and that of her family?
Is the intercession used to gain admission to the Education specialization, which was not the first choice, considered taking someone else's place? Is the money earned from this certificate unlawful? Is the gift given to the person who interceded considered bribery?
Is the questioner obligated to obey his father in going to Hurghada to collect money from merchants who sell shisha to tourists, knowing that the father works in tourism and owns a papyrus workshop and is preparing an apartment for the questioner and his older brother, and is marriage in this apartment forbidden?
Is it permissible for a wife to refuse to sleep on the floor if her husband orders her to do so during a dispute?
Does the wife, and her children, deserve financial support after leaving the marital home and taking the children with her?
Is a wife considered sinful for seeking divorce from her husband after three years of marriage due to her intense dislike of him, and her claim that he is deceptive, a liar, irresponsible, negligent in his work, frequently uses usurious credit cards, in addition to being ill-tempered, and abusing her with insults and beatings, which has negatively affected her psychological state and that of their daughter, making her averse to the marital relationship, knowing that her family supports her decision?
What is the legitimate Islamic position regarding a wife who provokes her husband, wrongs him and his family, refuses and evades intimacy, and refuses to travel with him to his place of residence? And what is the legitimate Islamic position regarding a neighbor who negatively interferes in marital disputes and encourages the wife to disobey her husband?
Is the self-talk that occurred twenty years ago, with the phrase "If I speak to this person, I will not continue with her," considered an intention accompanying the veiled utterance (kinayah) of divorce, and does this self-talk alone, without direct confirmation to the wife, lead to the occurrence of divorce, or is it not relied upon as an intention for divorce to occur, given that it is a promise of divorce and precedes the utterance? And what is relied upon in determining the occurrence of divorce after such a long period?
Do multiple talaqs pronounced by the husband, and the rulings that result therefrom, take effect if the husband intended divorce and prevention in one of them, and does divorce take effect by going to the uncle's house with the intention of obtaining it?