Rights of Spouses
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What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding a dispute between spouses due to the husband's request for his wife to postpone her studies because their work schedules do not align, and the wife's father's refusal for her to return after she went to her family's house, and is it permissible for the husband to divorce his wife in this situation?
What should I do, as I vowed to fast for three consecutive months if I committed a certain sin, then I committed it, and I was unable to fulfill the vow due to work circumstances and responsibilities?
What is the ruling on money earned from private work that was carried out using the equipment of the institution where the person works, without its knowledge, given that the institution violated the contract initially agreed upon? Is it obligatory to give out only the amount equivalent to the cost of renting the equipment, or is the entire amount unlawful? And what is the situation regarding their violation of the initial contract, especially with subsequent salary increases?
What is the ruling on my intervention to help relatives or friends obtain an academic major, continue their studies, secure university accommodation, or find a job, knowing that intercession (wasta) is widespread in my field of work and in my country?
What is the Sharia ruling regarding a wife who threatened to kill her husband, then falsely and slanderously claimed she was subjected to beating, and what should the husband do?
Is what is happening, in terms of obstacles in marriage and work, and his repeatedly seeing one of his female relatives in a dream and her threatening him, due to her?
What is the ruling on a husband who does not speak to his household, does not spend on them, and travels without informing them, while his wife is forced to go out to attend to her needs and the needs of the family?
Is it permissible to postpone the divorce for six months to pay the deferred dower, or should the divorce take place now with the deferred dower being paid later, knowing that there is a long distance between the spouses?
What are the legal rights of a woman and the custody of children if she requests a divorce from her husband who abuses her, seizes her money, and threatens her with private recordings? And can the court consider these recordings?
Is it permissible to keep one's sister at home and deprive her husband of her in order to pressure him to work?
What is the extent of permissibility, Islamically, of concluding partnership contracts between spouses regarding their properties, both the standard and the expanded forms, and is the expanded contract considered an injustice to the heirs' rights? And what is the fundamental principle in Islamic law concerning this?
Is it forbidden for a wife to go to work without her husband's knowledge, or to tell him that she is working as a volunteer while she is actually receiving a salary?
Is divorce the solution for a wife who is suffering from mistreatment by her husband and his family, lack of mutual respect between the spouses, and the husband's prioritizing of his family over her, especially with a child between them?
Is a wife considered sinful if her husband works in a pork butchery? And is this work considered grounds for divorce?
What is the difference between patience (ṣabr) and silence (sukūt), and does demanding one's rights contradict patience? And how can one be patient concerning the unavailability of marriage without falling into what Allah has warned against?
Does installing a pirated (copied) program on a work computer entail sin or expiation, especially after permanently leaving the job?
Is it permissible for a trainer to use pirated software in his work, and does he bear sin if he trains engineers who will use it pirated for profit, knowing its impermissibility?
Is it permissible to complete the marriage to a committed girl who works as an art teacher, and whose former specialization was (sculpture), with her knowledge of the prohibition of sculpture and her affirmation that she no longer practices this art, and that her current work is limited to drawing inanimate objects and altering the form of animate beings when necessary?
Is it permissible to divorce a wife who has been proven infertile and refuses polygyny, knowing that she is the wife who helped her husband obtain residency and work permits in France?
What is the ruling on a wife speaking with her boss at work strictly within the scope of work, and what is the ruling on the triple divorce oath sworn by the husband against her if she speaks with a strange man on the phone in an illicit relationship, knowing that the wife already has a previous divorce?
Is it permissible for the wife's father to prevent the husband from seeing his wife and order him to pay his debts and provide housing before he allows her to return to him, knowing the husband's difficult circumstances?
Is it permissible to postpone childbearing after marriage and after completing studies with the aim of finding a job to improve the couple's financial situation, taking into account that local laws may prohibit employment or allow dismissal if the woman is pregnant before a certain period of work?
Do the mentioned reasons constitute a legitimate Shar'i justification for divorce, or are they an injustice to the wife, with the agreement that she relinquish her rights?
Do the aforementioned symptoms of aversion to the husband and the emission of an odor, which a woman diagnosed as being due to sprinkled and burned sihr (black magic), necessitate the use of bitter apple, saffron, salt, and apple cider vinegar, upon which Quranic verses have been recited, for treatment?