The ruling on one who forbids his wife to himself and swears that she will not be his wife
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Question: To the honorable, His Eminence Shaykh/ Abdul Aziz ibn Baz, the respected
Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings, and after that:
I inform you that I am a poor man, and I have nothing but the salary I receive from my job, where I work as a soldier in the border forces. It happened that I forbade my wife with the prohibition of my mother, and then I swore that she would not be a wife to me. I have repented for what happened from me, as she is pregnant.
I ask you to issue a ruling on my matter, if you see a way for me to return to my wife. I also ask Allah, then your Eminence, that the response be in writing. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer: And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings:
If the reality is as you mentioned above, then it is obligatory for you to repent to Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He; because forbidding the wife is a matter that is not permissible, and Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, has named it an evil saying and a lie. And upon you for that is the expiation for zihar, which is freeing a slave. If you do not find one, then fasting two consecutive months. If you are unable to do that, then feeding sixty poor people, for each poor person half a sa' of the food of the land, such as dates, rice, or other, before you touch her.
As for your oath that she will not be a wife to you, upon you for it is the expiation for an oath, which is: feeding ten poor people, for each poor person half a sa' of the food of the land. And if you breakfast with them or dinner with them or clothe them, that suffices.
And I ask Allah to protect us and you and the rest of the Muslims from the stings of Satan, and from the evil of the self, and from bad deeds; indeed He is Hearing, Near.
And peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah ibn Baz
Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings, and after that:
I inform you that I am a poor man, and I have nothing but the salary I receive from my job, where I work as a soldier in the border forces. It happened that I forbade my wife with the prohibition of my mother, and then I swore that she would not be a wife to me. I have repented for what happened from me, as she is pregnant.
I ask you to issue a ruling on my matter, if you see a way for me to return to my wife. I also ask Allah, then your Eminence, that the response be in writing. May Allah reward you with good.
Answer: And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah and His blessings:
If the reality is as you mentioned above, then it is obligatory for you to repent to Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He; because forbidding the wife is a matter that is not permissible, and Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, has named it an evil saying and a lie. And upon you for that is the expiation for zihar, which is freeing a slave. If you do not find one, then fasting two consecutive months. If you are unable to do that, then feeding sixty poor people, for each poor person half a sa' of the food of the land, such as dates, rice, or other, before you touch her.
As for your oath that she will not be a wife to you, upon you for it is the expiation for an oath, which is: feeding ten poor people, for each poor person half a sa' of the food of the land. And if you breakfast with them or dinner with them or clothe them, that suffices.
And I ask Allah to protect us and you and the rest of the Muslims from the stings of Satan, and from the evil of the self, and from bad deeds; indeed He is Hearing, Near.
And peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah ibn Baz
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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