A wife forbidding her husband from visiting his mother

Question

Umar’s mother, bringing along the sons and daughters of her second husband, used to live with Umar and kept violating the rights of his wife and children. Umar said nothing out of respect for her, but when matters went beyond all limits and she went so far as to tell him to leave this wife — whereas two other wives had already been left because of her — we wrote out everything in detail and obtained a fatwa from you, from which it became known that she should be kept with her present husband; but if the mother is…

Answer

The wife fears sorcery. For protection from it, after each of the five prayers they should recite the four suras beginning with “Say” (al-Kafirun, al-Ikhlas, al-Falaq, al-Nas), “al-Hamd” (Surat al-Fatiha) and Ayat al-Kursi three times each and blow over themselves; Allah Most High willing, there will be protection from the danger of sorcery.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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