The wife’s displeasure and her husband’s boycotting her if he marries another woman
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a man marries another woman while he is married to his wife, and she becomes displeased with him and boycotts him, does this indicate that she is averse to what Allah has sent down and that she is sinful for doing so? What is the ruling? If a man marries another woman while he is married to his wife, and she becomes displeased with him and boycotts him, does this indicate
Answer:
He married another woman while still married to his first wife. Yes, meaning he married another woman alongside his wife. Yes, this is what Allah has made permissible for him. He does not look to his wife's satisfaction or dissatisfaction, nor to her father's, but it is obligatory for him to be just.[An-Nisa 4:3] He [An-Nisa 4:3] Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a man marries another woman while he is married to his wife, and she becomes displeased with him and boycotts him, does this indicate that she is averse to what Allah has sent down and that she is sinful for doing so? What is the ruling? If a man marries another woman while he is married to his wife, and she becomes displeased with him and boycotts him, does this indicate
Answer:
He married another woman while still married to his first wife. Yes, meaning he married another woman alongside his wife. Yes, this is what Allah has made permissible for him. He does not look to his wife's satisfaction or dissatisfaction, nor to her father's, but it is obligatory for him to be just.
But if you fear
فَإِنْ خِفْتُمْthat you will not be just, then [marry only] one
أَلَّا تَعْدِلُوا فَوَاحِدَةً
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب الإيصاء بما يدخله النيابة من خلافة وعتاقة ومحاكمة في نسب وغيره — islamhouse.com (1:10:18)
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