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Nikah (Marriage) - Talaaq (Divorce) The Majlis Vol 27 No 09, p.24

A man wants to cut off the water and electricity supply of his ex-wife.

Question

A man wants to cut off the water and electricity supply of his ex-wife. According to him she is not paying for the water and electricity she is using. Is it proper for him to do so. They were married for many many years and have a few children.

Answer

Cutting off her water and electricity supply will be of the worst kind of zulm. Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said:

"Whoever gives someone water to drink in a place where water is available plentiful, his reward is like emancipating a Muslim slave. And, if he gives someone water to drink where water is not freely available, then it is as if he has brought to life a dead Muslim."

It is absolutely intolerable and unacceptable that a man threatens his children‟s mother with deprivation of water. All his ibaadat, if he has any, will go to waste. This will be zulm of the worst kind. A prostitute was forgiven and granted Jannat for having given a dog some water to drink. But here a man threatens to deprive the mother of his children from water. Indeed he is a stonehearted, cruel brute.

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