A wife refusing her husband on the pretext of worship
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: A woman refuses to have intercourse with her husband on the pretext of worshipping Allah and raising the children. Is that permissible for her according to the Shari'ah?
Answer:
No, it is not permissible for her to do so. In fact, if her husband asks for her, she must respond to him, unless there is a barrier such as menstruation, post-natal bleeding, or something else, or obligatory fasting or a vow, obligatory fasting. Even recommended fasting, she breaks it for his sake, and she does not disobey her husband in that.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: A woman refuses to have intercourse with her husband on the pretext of worshipping Allah and raising the children. Is that permissible for her according to the Shari'ah?
Answer:
No, it is not permissible for her to do so. In fact, if her husband asks for her, she must respond to him, unless there is a barrier such as menstruation, post-natal bleeding, or something else, or obligatory fasting or a vow, obligatory fasting. Even recommended fasting, she breaks it for his sake, and she does not disobey her husband in that.
Whichever woman her husband calls to the bed, or in this sense, and she refuses, the angels curse her until morning.
أيما امرأة دعاها زوجها للفراش أو بهذا المعنى فأبت لعنتها الملائكة حتى تصبح،
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شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل فإذا عرف أن كل حركة فأصلها الحب والإرادة ... — islamhouse.com (1:05:53)
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