Separation from a harsh husband

Question

Question: My daughter has been at home for four years. Her in-laws harass her greatly: they give her neither food nor clothing, and they had even resolved to kill her. Now the girl does not want to go there under any circumstances, and even now her life is in danger. We are poor people. In this situation, please annul her nikah immediately so that I can settle the girl elsewhere. That is all.

Answer

There can be two grounds for separating your daughter from her husband. The first is that the husband is impotent; even for this, immediate separation is not possible: rather, a petition to a court or to a Shar‘i council will be needed, the husband will be given a year’s respite for treatment, and if even then he is unable to have intercourse, the ruling of separation will be…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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