Rights of Spouses
1,443 questions
Is a khul' valid if it occurs without the husband's knowledge of a pregnancy, or without witnesses, or without it being finalized in court?
Is it permissible to use non-genuine software (such as Windows and Photoshop) in producing Dawa pamphlets and CDs, knowing that they are expensive and our financial situation is not good?
Does a divorce take place by saying "The wife is divorced" with the intention of joking in order to retire from work, and not to divorce the wife?
Are the two phrases uttered by the husband: "You are divorced" (أنت طالق) and "divorced" (مطلقة) - in the context of the mentioned marital disputes and the husband's asking the wife's brother about her status after she left the home - considered a legitimate divorce, and what are the rulings regarding the waiting period (iddah) and the rights and duties of the spouses during it, and how should they interact and what should they wear, and can the wife remain in the marital home after the iddah has expired given her professional and legal circumstances?
What is the religious ruling on divorcing a wife if the husband is an addict and does not provide for her or their children, and he refuses her working despite this being stipulated in the marriage contract?
What are the wife's legitimate rights and the age of child custody if the husband wants to divorce her without cause and bargain with her to leave the home and relinquish her rights in exchange for remaining with her children until the age of custody?
Is it permissible to dispose of financial trust assets in an unstable work environment to reclaim rights when there is a fear of their loss, knowing that the questioner was ignorant of matters of lawful and unlawful during his youth?
Is it permissible for a woman to sell women's necessities from her home, without her husband's knowledge and despite his refusal, in order to meet her needs and financially assist her family, knowing beforehand her husband's strong opposition to this work?
Is a wife entitled to refuse marital intimacy and childbearing from her husband, despite her contributing to household expenses and her refusal of her husband's request for her to stop working? And is she entitled to demand an independent home, knowing that she agreed to live with his family before marriage and was aware of his financial situation?
Is it obligatory to inform a friend that his wife contacted the questioner, with the potential for divorce, or should the matter be concealed and left for him to discover on his own, with the risk of losing the friendship?
Is it considered disobedience to one's parents if one does not leave work at the hospital due to unavoidable mixing, even though one's parents have requested that one stay until marriage?
Is the wife still under the husband's authority and responsibility? What is the ruling on situations in which the husband utters a conditional divorce or an allusion to it, or when he hesitates about whether a divorce has occurred or not due to obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Is it permissible for a working wife to delegate the task of preparing lunch to the maid, given that the husband wishes for the wife to do it?
What are a man's responsibilities in which his wife does not interfere?
What is the ruling on designing advertisements for restaurants that serve alcohol, or for beauty salons and hairdressers that may engage in eyebrow plucking (namṣ), tattooing (washm), and beautifying prostitutes, knowing that the work of bridal beauticians is limited to preparing the bride for her wedding night?
What should I do about my wife who refused to return to the marital home after demanding a separate residence which she knows I cannot afford, and should I be the one to initiate divorce, and what about the custody of my son after weaning?
Is it permissible for the wife to compel her husband to move with her to another city for the sake of her job, while he refuses to do so?
Is the husband considered sinful if the spouses divorce because the wife refused to transfer her job to the husband's town, and is the husband's insistence on her transferring her job a legitimate right for him?
What is the ruling on nepotism and favoritism prevalent in employment and education, and the resulting injustice to others and deprivation of their opportunities? Are the wealth and certificates obtained through these means considered unlawful? And what is the way to get rid of this unlawful gain?
Should I return to my country, or should I work and look at the "dressed yet naked" women whom I see wherever I go?
What is the ruling on the salary paid to a computer instructor in a training center that uses unlicensed software?
What are a wife's rights after divorce, taking into account that she was the one who requested it and claimed to have received her belongings despite not having received them, and that her father is demanding the full dowry list, deferred dowry, and alimony?
Is it permissible for a girl to travel alone for study and work in a foreign country to secure her future and the future of her family, given that her father opposes her travel on the grounds of not having a mahram, and he does not care for her financial affairs? And would her travel be considered disobedience to her father?
Is it permissible to abort a two-month-old fetus out of fear of future problems with the father after divorce and his unwillingness to bear his responsibilities?