The woman's patience with a husband who does not pray
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a woman asking, and she says: Is it permissible for a woman to be patient with her husband while he does not pray, or is it obligatory for her to seek khul' (divorce at the wife's request for compensation) or talaq (divorce pronounced by the husband)?
Answer:
It is obligatory for her; she must not remain with him while he does not pray, because the one who abandons prayer intentionally is a disbeliever. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says:[Al-Mumtahanah 60:10], and the one who abandons prayer intentionally is a disbeliever who has exited the religion of Islam. There is no share in Islam for one who neglects the prayer. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a woman asking, and she says: Is it permissible for a woman to be patient with her husband while he does not pray, or is it obligatory for her to seek khul' (divorce at the wife's request for compensation) or talaq (divorce pronounced by the husband)?
Answer:
It is obligatory for her; she must not remain with him while he does not pray, because the one who abandons prayer intentionally is a disbeliever. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says:
And if you know them to be believers, then do not return them to the disbelievers; they are not lawful [wives] for them, nor are they lawful [husbands] for them
فَإِنْ عَلِمْتُمُوهُنَّ مُؤْمِنَاتٍ فَلَا تَرْجِعُوهُنَّ إِلَى الْكُفَّارِ لَا هُنَّ حِلٌّ لَّهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحِلُّونَ لَهُنَّ
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، ذكر الآثار عن تابعي التابعين ومن بعدهم — islamhouse.com (51:41)
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