Question: What is the ruling on a Sunni marrying a Shi‘i and vice-versa; a Makramī marrying a Zaydī and vice-versa; a flagrantly sinful person (fāsiq) marrying a believing woman and vice-versa; and a hypocrite (munāfiq) marrying a believing woman and...
Question: There is an irreligious man whom his wife sometimes hears denying life after death and rejecting Paradise and Hell; sometimes his children hear him as well. He sometimes prays as a mere formality in front of people. What is...
Question: A woman has a husband who does not pray and is unconcerned about committing sins. She has children from him and she is a believer. What is obligatory upon her? Must she separate from him and leave him?
Question: A woman was married for years. Then the husband fell into insanity. She remained with him, enabled him (sexually), and tended to his needs—doing so because she hoped for his recovery, expected he would get better, and assumed that...
Question: If a husband finds his wife not a virgin, is it permissible for him to press her with questions, to query her insistently and argue, or is that impermissible?
Question: If a husband asks his wife for, say, some of her gold, and she gives it to him and waives her claim; then he later divorces her and she demands the gold back—he says, “You absolved me and waived...
Question: A marriage contract was concluded for a woman, and her guardian stipulated for her a dowry, gold jewelry, clothing, etc. The husband accepted and married her. After some time he came to dislike his wife and divorced her. A...
Question: Two men, each of whom has a son and a daughter, agreed that each would marry his daughter to the other’s son, with the dowry for each girl specified—i.e., this is not shighār. They wrote an agreement between them...