What is the ruling if a mother orders her son to divorce his wife?

The questioner : If the mother orders her son to divorce his wife, even though the wife is obedient to her husband, but...

The Shaykh : Even though the wife is what?

The questioner : Obedient.

The Shaykh : Obedient, what does that mean?

The questioner : It means obedient.

The Shaykh : Obedience to Allah is not something that can be said of a servant of Allah. All right.

The questioner : Yes, but a quarrel occurred between her and the mother only, so she told the son, "Divorce her."

The Shaykh : This problem—unfortunately—occurs in the present age due to the corruption of upbringing and the society in which we live. My answer to this, in brief, is that if this mother were like 'Umar ibn al-Khattab in knowledge of Islam, and in what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has made lawful and what He has forbidden, and if she were in 'Umar's position regarding his fear of his Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He), then if she told the daughter to divorce, she would obey. But this is a fantasy within a fantasy; because we do not find among fathers one whom we can trust to issue a ruling to his son if his father orders him to divorce his wife, due to what we know of fathers following their desires. I say this because it is established in the authentic hadith that 'Umar ibn al-Khattab's father, 'Umar, ordered him to divorce his wife, so he came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned that to him, and he said to him: , ordering him to divorce his wife in obedience to his father. This is an explicit text, but we do not have a text stating that a father or mother is equal to 'Umar in knowledge, righteousness, and piety. Otherwise, this comparison would be like comparing blacksmiths to angels, as some people say.
Yes.