Husband unable to be intimate with wife
Question
If a woman has a disorder where her vaginal passage does not dilate, resulting in her being unable to consummate the marriage, then, does her husband have a choice in keeping this marriage? Just as a man gets married and is found to be impotent,then his wife has a choice to remain in the marriage or not.
Is there any Fiqhi text to prove this?
Answer
If the wife has a blockage as a result of which the husband cannot consummate the marriage (through penetration), then the husband doesn’t have a choice in the matter.
References (Arabic / Urdu sources)
وإن كان بالزوجة عيب كجنون أو جذام أو برص أو رتق أو قرن فلا خيار (اللباب في شرح الكتاب ص24 ج3)
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- Mufti Mohammed Desai
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