The ruling on obeying one's parents in leaving one's wife with them and traveling while in need of her
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Question:
I am a man who has married, and I left my wife with my father according to his wish. My father is insistent that I not travel with this wife, knowing that the wife does not want to be separated from me. So, am I sinful if I leave the woman with my father, or am I sinful if I take her from him while he is angry and thus become undutiful to my father?
Answer:
If it is possible to combine the benefits by going and returning between one time and another, and leaving her with your father because your parents need her, and you do not delay too much, returning to her between one month and the next, attending to her needs and observing what she wants, and pleasing your parents, that is good.
As for if you need her and are unable to come to them, your needs take precedence; you go with her, and you seek your father's forgiveness, and he has no obedience in this; because you need her: she preserves your chastity and helps you in fighting Satan, so you go with her, and there is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator; because your going alone exposes you to serious matters, and she too may be exposed to serious matters in her sitting alone.
So it is obligatory for you to take her with you, and to preserve your chastity through her, and to lower your gaze through her, and to seek your father's forgiveness with kind words, and to advise him to allow it, and to seek help in that from close relatives: such as your uncles or maternal uncles, until he is pleased with you. As for leaving her with them while you are unable to return to her in a short time to fulfill your need and preserve your chastity, this is not suitable, and this is an error on the part of your father.
I am a man who has married, and I left my wife with my father according to his wish. My father is insistent that I not travel with this wife, knowing that the wife does not want to be separated from me. So, am I sinful if I leave the woman with my father, or am I sinful if I take her from him while he is angry and thus become undutiful to my father?
Answer:
If it is possible to combine the benefits by going and returning between one time and another, and leaving her with your father because your parents need her, and you do not delay too much, returning to her between one month and the next, attending to her needs and observing what she wants, and pleasing your parents, that is good.
As for if you need her and are unable to come to them, your needs take precedence; you go with her, and you seek your father's forgiveness, and he has no obedience in this; because you need her: she preserves your chastity and helps you in fighting Satan, so you go with her, and there is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator; because your going alone exposes you to serious matters, and she too may be exposed to serious matters in her sitting alone.
So it is obligatory for you to take her with you, and to preserve your chastity through her, and to lower your gaze through her, and to seek your father's forgiveness with kind words, and to advise him to allow it, and to seek help in that from close relatives: such as your uncles or maternal uncles, until he is pleased with you. As for leaving her with them while you are unable to return to her in a short time to fulfill your need and preserve your chastity, this is not suitable, and this is an error on the part of your father.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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