What is the ruling on a woman whose husband does not pray?

Question : The questioner says: If a woman is married and her husband does not pray, is she permitted to leave him?

Answer : If a woman is married and her husband never prays, neither in congregation nor alone, then there is no marriage between them. We do not tell her to leave him; rather, we say that the marriage is automatically annulled. She is not his wife, and it is not permissible for him to have any of the rights a man has over his wife, because she has become a stranger to him. In this situation, it is obligatory for her to go to her family and to try, as much as she can, to get rid of this man who has committed disbelief after his Islam, may Allah protect us from that.
Therefore, I say, and I hope that women will hear what I am saying: Any woman whose husband does not pray is not permitted to stay with him for even a blink of an eye, even if she has children from him. In this case, her children will follow her, and their father has no right to their custody, because a disbeliever has no custody over a Muslim.