A husband having intercourse with his wife during the day in Ramadan and what is required of her

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A woman asks about her husband, who had intercourse with her in Ramadan, claiming that there is no harm in it because she is his wife. She agreed to it out of leniency, but she did not know that it entails an expiation. What should she do? May Allah grant you success.

Answer:
She must make up the day, she must repent to Allah, and she must pay the expiation. The expiation is fasting two consecutive months, or freeing a slave first, if she is able to free a slave. If she cannot, she fasts two consecutive months. If she cannot do that, she feeds sixty poor people. This is not permissible; this is forbidden. This man who has intercourse in Ramadan is one who treats the rulings of Allah the Exalted with contempt, either because he is not a believer and does not care about the rulings of the Shari'ah, or because he is a believer but he treats Ramadan with contempt and belittles fasting, in which case he is an open sinner. It is not permissible for this woman to remain with him unless he repents to Allah the Exalted and abandons this act.