The refusal of the sick wife to have intercourse and the dropping of her maintenance
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a woman is weak and ill, and her husband asks for intercourse, but she cannot bear it and he is insistent, so she refuses and rejects it, is she considered defiant, such that her maintenance is dropped?
Answer:
She is excused when she is ill and unable to have intercourse, because she is justified by her health condition. So she is excused, she is not defiant, and her maintenance is not dropped.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if a woman is weak and ill, and her husband asks for intercourse, but she cannot bear it and he is insistent, so she refuses and rejects it, is she considered defiant, such that her maintenance is dropped?
Answer:
She is excused when she is ill and unable to have intercourse, because she is justified by her health condition. So she is excused, she is not defiant, and her maintenance is not dropped.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 084 من 123 / شرح كتاب زاد المستقنع / الطلاق / عشيرة النساء / صالح الفوزان / الفقه / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:03:16)
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