What is the ruling regarding a wife who does not pray despite her husband's admonition, and she justifies this by her inability to perform ghusl after every state of janabah?
Abandoning prayer is a grave sin and one of the greatest destructive acts, worse than adultery, theft, drinking alcohol, and killing a soul, by consensus of Muslims. Some scholars even consider one who deliberately abandons it and lets its time expire to be a disbeliever.
The woman must repent, and her excuse is not acceptable. If she is able to perform , it is obligatory. If she is unable, she should perform and pray.
Her husband must encourage her to pray and employ all possible means, in accordance with the Almighty's saying: "O you who have believed, protect yourselves and your families from a Fire," and the Prophet’s (peace be upon him) saying: "Each of you is a guardian, and each of you is responsible for his subjects."
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