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Nikah (Marriage) - Talaaq (Divorce) The Majlis Vol 23 No 09, p.10

Some nights during the week I come home late after visiting friends.

Question

Some nights during the week I come home late after visiting friends. My wife always fights with me and tries to control my movements. She does not want me to meet my friends, and insists that I have to be home every night immediately after Isha' Namaaz. Can a wife exercise such control over the movements of her husband and dictate to him about his friends? What is her Shariah right in this matter?

Answer

Her Shariah right is that you have to be incumbently at home every night immediately after Isha' Salaat. It is haraam for you to come home late. It is not permissible to 'enjoy' yourself with friends after Isha' whilst your family is alone at home. You should be

ashamed of yourself. You are a married man with children. Your wife and children are your friends. The other chaps with whom you wile away the time after Isha' are devils. They are not friends.

A common shaitaani practice is for married men to go haraam partying with haraam friends at haraam places at night. They return home late at time, and even after midnight. Their time is satanically squandered in zina. There are various kinds of zina – zina of the mind, of the eyes, of the tongue, of the ears and of the limbs. All of this zina is generally committed by men who come home at midnight and after.

Just as the La'nat of Allah settles on a woman who

leaves the home without her

husband's permission, so

too does the Curse of Allah

Azza Wa Jal settle on a man

who frolics around with evil

friends. The haraam dalliances of married men who

stay out of their homes late

at night are a cesspool of

immorality. It is nothing but

concupiscence which induces them to visit jaunts and

haunts with haraam friends.

Brother, you are sinful

in your nocturnal prowlings

and absence from the home

during night times. You are

rendering a grave injustice

to your family. Your wife

has every Shar'i right to

fight with you in her endeavour to save you from

your nocturnal haraam shenanigans. What does a married man want late at night

away from his wife and

children in the company of

filth? He wants only zina.

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