The ruling on zihar (likening one's wife to a forbidden relative) from two wives with a single phrase
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Question:
Another man says: I am married to two women, and in a moment of anger I said: My wives are to me like the prohibition of my mother. I now want to know whether they are all forbidden to me, or whether I owe an expiation?
Answer:
He should not have forbidden his wives. When he feels anger, he should seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Shaytan, and this is what he should do, and he should not rush in matters.
Zihar (likening one's wife to a forbidden relative) and forbidding one's wives is forbidden, an abomination of speech, and a sin; as Allah named it in the verse. But if that happened to you and you said: My wives are like my mother, or like my mother's back, or like my sister, or my sister's back, this is called zihar (likening one's wife to a forbidden relative).
So you must free a believing slave. If you are unable, you must fast two consecutive months. If you are unable, you must feed sixty poor people, thirty sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), or provide them with dinner, or provide them with lunch, before you approach her, before you touch her. This is the expiation for zihar (likening one's wife to a forbidden relative). If you are unable to free a slave or fast, you feed sixty poor people, providing them with dinner or lunch, together or separately, or you give them half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of dates or rice, approximately one and a half kilograms for each person, before you touch the wife you forbade. If he said: All my wives are forbidden to me with one word, or my women, or my wives are like my mother, or forbidden like my mother; one expiation is sufficient, because it was one word.
Question: What does money benefit?
Answer: No money, no, food.
Another man says: I am married to two women, and in a moment of anger I said: My wives are to me like the prohibition of my mother. I now want to know whether they are all forbidden to me, or whether I owe an expiation?
Answer:
He should not have forbidden his wives. When he feels anger, he should seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Shaytan, and this is what he should do, and he should not rush in matters.
Zihar (likening one's wife to a forbidden relative) and forbidding one's wives is forbidden, an abomination of speech, and a sin; as Allah named it in the verse. But if that happened to you and you said: My wives are like my mother, or like my mother's back, or like my sister, or my sister's back, this is called zihar (likening one's wife to a forbidden relative).
So you must free a believing slave. If you are unable, you must fast two consecutive months. If you are unable, you must feed sixty poor people, thirty sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), or provide them with dinner, or provide them with lunch, before you approach her, before you touch her. This is the expiation for zihar (likening one's wife to a forbidden relative). If you are unable to free a slave or fast, you feed sixty poor people, providing them with dinner or lunch, together or separately, or you give them half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of dates or rice, approximately one and a half kilograms for each person, before you touch the wife you forbade. If he said: All my wives are forbidden to me with one word, or my women, or my wives are like my mother, or forbidden like my mother; one expiation is sufficient, because it was one word.
Question: What does money benefit?
Answer: No money, no, food.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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