The Ruling on Cursing One’s Wife to Her Children and Divorcing Her
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Question:
I move on to another letter. The questioner says: My wife’s habit is to curse and abuse her children and invoke evil upon them, sometimes with words and sometimes with blows, for every small and large matter. I have advised her many times to stop this shameful behavior, but she did not respond. The result was that the children came to hate their mother, this wife. What is your opinion on this matter from the perspective of Islamic law? And am I permitted to seek her divorce?
Answer:
As you mentioned, you must counsel her and warn her of Allah regarding this speech, and that it causes the children to turn away from her and hate her. Counsel her about this matter. If she persists in it and does not accept, and you see that you cannot continue with her, then there is no harm in divorcing her to avoid her harm. Yes.
I move on to another letter. The questioner says: My wife’s habit is to curse and abuse her children and invoke evil upon them, sometimes with words and sometimes with blows, for every small and large matter. I have advised her many times to stop this shameful behavior, but she did not respond. The result was that the children came to hate their mother, this wife. What is your opinion on this matter from the perspective of Islamic law? And am I permitted to seek her divorce?
Answer:
As you mentioned, you must counsel her and warn her of Allah regarding this speech, and that it causes the children to turn away from her and hate her. Counsel her about this matter. If she persists in it and does not accept, and you see that you cannot continue with her, then there is no harm in divorcing her to avoid her harm. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/253 — archive.org (8:42)
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