Husband preventing the wife from visiting her relatives
Question
If a husband orders his wife not go to some of her relatives and she goes without the husband's permission, is she living in sin?
Answer
If it is for shar`ee valid reasons that he prevents her then it will be wrong of her to visit them.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
- Answered by
- Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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