The Ruling on a Wife Remaining with a Husband Who Abandons Prayer
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Question:
From the questions from the women's section, the questioner says: I am married and have children, and their father does not pray. I remain with him, hoping that Allah will reform him. What is the ruling on that? I ask for supplication for my reform and his.
Answer:
It is not permissible for you to continue with a husband who deliberately abandons the prayer; because if he deliberately abandons the prayer, he has exited the religion, and you are a Muslim woman, and a Muslim woman does not remain with an apostate, nor with a disbeliever. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Mumtahanah 60:10] [Al-Mumtahanah 60:10].
And the term "disbelievers" includes the original disbeliever and the apostate disbeliever, so it is not permissible for a Muslim woman to reside with a man who persists in abandoning the prayer. If he returns to the prayer, she remains with him; but if he persists in abandoning it and refuses to pray, it is obligatory for her to separate from him and not reside with him; because she is not lawful for him, and he is not lawful for her, as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Mumtahanah 60:10] for them
From the questions from the women's section, the questioner says: I am married and have children, and their father does not pray. I remain with him, hoping that Allah will reform him. What is the ruling on that? I ask for supplication for my reform and his.
Answer:
It is not permissible for you to continue with a husband who deliberately abandons the prayer; because if he deliberately abandons the prayer, he has exited the religion, and you are a Muslim woman, and a Muslim woman does not remain with an apostate, nor with a disbeliever. Allah the Exalted said:
And if you know them to be believers
فَإِنْ عَلِمْتُمُوهُنَّ مُؤْمِنَاتٍthen do not return them to the disbelievers; they are not lawful [wives] for them, nor are they lawful [husbands] for them
فَلَا تَرْجِعُوهُنَّ إِلَى الْكُفَّارِ لَا هُنَّ حِلٌّ لَّهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحِلُّونَ لَهُنَّAnd the term "disbelievers" includes the original disbeliever and the apostate disbeliever, so it is not permissible for a Muslim woman to reside with a man who persists in abandoning the prayer. If he returns to the prayer, she remains with him; but if he persists in abandoning it and refuses to pray, it is obligatory for her to separate from him and not reside with him; because she is not lawful for him, and he is not lawful for her, as Allah the Exalted said:
they are not lawful [wives] for them, nor are they lawful [husbands]
لَا هُنَّ حِلٌّ لَّهُمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحِلُّونَ
Source
الفتاوى الفقهية في المسائل الطبية الرمضانية، الفتاوي الفقهية في المسائل الطبية الرمضانية — islamhouse.com (43:17)
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