Is a husband permitted to prevent his wife from visiting her relatives?
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Question:
The questioner (M. Sh.) from al-Zubdani says, O Shaykh: If I ask my husband to let me go to my sister, or to my maternal aunt, he says to me: "You have no family ties to maintain." Is this correct? And is a husband permitted to prevent his wife from visiting her relatives?
Answer:
This is a mistake. Maintaining family ties is obligatory through kind words, and through financial support if the relative is poor and you are wealthy, helping him and doing good to him. This is obligatory. Maintaining family ties is obligatory, and severing them is forbidden. It is not permissible for a husband to assist in severing family ties, nor to order the severing of family ties. Rather, he must help in doing good. However, you should not go out except with his permission, using kind words and a good manner, until he gives permission. He does not have the right to prevent you from maintaining family ties, neither with money nor with visits, unless the visit involves evil. If the relatives are of a bad character, having sins among them, he may prevent you from visiting them if there is evil and sins among them, and he fears that the visit will harm you.
As for if they are people of good and righteousness, he does not have the right to prevent you in the usual, known manner that does not harm him, such as visiting your sister, or your maternal aunt, or your paternal aunt, or your grandmother, or the like of your relatives, or your maternal uncle, or your brother, or the like. But in a manner that does not harm the husband. And if he prevents you, do not go out except with his permission, using a good manner and kind words, and do not rush. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you, O Shaykh.
The questioner (M. Sh.) from al-Zubdani says, O Shaykh: If I ask my husband to let me go to my sister, or to my maternal aunt, he says to me: "You have no family ties to maintain." Is this correct? And is a husband permitted to prevent his wife from visiting her relatives?
Answer:
This is a mistake. Maintaining family ties is obligatory through kind words, and through financial support if the relative is poor and you are wealthy, helping him and doing good to him. This is obligatory. Maintaining family ties is obligatory, and severing them is forbidden. It is not permissible for a husband to assist in severing family ties, nor to order the severing of family ties. Rather, he must help in doing good. However, you should not go out except with his permission, using kind words and a good manner, until he gives permission. He does not have the right to prevent you from maintaining family ties, neither with money nor with visits, unless the visit involves evil. If the relatives are of a bad character, having sins among them, he may prevent you from visiting them if there is evil and sins among them, and he fears that the visit will harm you.
As for if they are people of good and righteousness, he does not have the right to prevent you in the usual, known manner that does not harm him, such as visiting your sister, or your maternal aunt, or your paternal aunt, or your grandmother, or the like of your relatives, or your maternal uncle, or your brother, or the like. But in a manner that does not harm the husband. And if he prevents you, do not go out except with his permission, using a good manner and kind words, and do not rush. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you, O Shaykh.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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