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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Justice between the wife and the mother in the event of a dispute

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Question:
He says: I have been married since the last time, and I took a new wife, and her situation with him is such that no one but they want to interfere in the other’s situation. I ask you how I should deal with my mother and my sisters, for my mother and my sisters do not know it, but she is sane from the benefit of her derivation upon them for the sake of Islam.

Answer:
You must be just and fair; do not wrong your wife, and also do not anger your mother. You can settle the dispute and reconcile what is between them, even by paying some money so that the dispute goes away. If the matter also requires that you take your wife out and house her in a residence far away from the residence of these competing women, the important thing is that you try to reconcile and treat the issue. As for divorce, there is no obligation to divorce her as long as she is upright and righteous; there is no obligation to divorce her.
Source شرح ثلاثة الأصول وأدلتها، الأصول الثلاثة: معرفة الله ورسوله ودين الإسلام — islamhouse.com (1:21:23)

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