My wife told me that if I brought my brother into our home without her knowledge, she would become forbidden to me, and this brother entered without my informing her.
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Question: My wife told me that if I brought my brother into our home without her knowledge, she would become forbidden to me, and this brother entered without my informing her. So, in this case, does she become forbidden to me, or what?
Answer: If her intention was to prevent this person from entering the house until she knew about it and gave him permission, and you brought him into the house without her knowledge, then you have violated what you swore to, and this is the same as an oath, so she owes the expiation for an oath.And it is: This is freeing a slave, or feeding ten poor people, with each poor person receiving half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of food, or clothing ten poor people, with each poor person receiving a garment. If you do not find any of these three things, then she must fast for three days, and this is the expiation for her oath, which is the prohibition.
of this person entering the house without her knowledge, and you brought him in without her knowledge, she has broken her oath, and the expiation becomes obligatory upon her.
Question: This ruling applies in every case where a wife makes herself forbidden to her husband; its ruling is the expiation for an oath.
Answer: Yes, this is the correct opinion of the scholars: if a woman commits zihar (likening her husband to a forbidden relative) with her husband or makes him forbidden to herself, the correct view is that she owes the expiation for an oath.
Answer: If her intention was to prevent this person from entering the house until she knew about it and gave him permission, and you brought him into the house without her knowledge, then you have violated what you swore to, and this is the same as an oath, so she owes the expiation for an oath.And it is: This is freeing a slave, or feeding ten poor people, with each poor person receiving half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of food, or clothing ten poor people, with each poor person receiving a garment. If you do not find any of these three things, then she must fast for three days, and this is the expiation for her oath, which is the prohibition.
of this person entering the house without her knowledge, and you brought him in without her knowledge, she has broken her oath, and the expiation becomes obligatory upon her.
Question: This ruling applies in every case where a wife makes herself forbidden to her husband; its ruling is the expiation for an oath.
Answer: Yes, this is the correct opinion of the scholars: if a woman commits zihar (likening her husband to a forbidden relative) with her husband or makes him forbidden to herself, the correct view is that she owes the expiation for an oath.