Question
On weekends my husband goes with his friends to enjoy himself. He goes fishing or for some other sport abandoning us. He says that it is his right to go wherever and whenever he wants. Is his abandonment of one‟s family proper and permissible?
Answer
Enjoying a weekend out with friends is shaitaaniyat. A husband is supposed to be with his wife every night, not with ‗friends'. Such friends are evil. This type of company can never be good. It is not permissible for a husband to enjoy himself for the weekend out with friends while his wife and children are alone at home. Catching fish for sport/enjoyment is haraam, and the sin is aggravated if the fishing is at night.
Your husband's fishing out with friends over the weekend is undoubtedly haraam.
Your concerns are valid. However, if you lose Sabr, then your marriage will suffer. There is much thawaab for Sabr. Make much and constant dua that Allah Ta'ala guides your husband to understand his folly and the grave sins he is indulging in with his fishing with friends and staying out of the home at night. It is haraam for a husband to be unnecessarily out of the house from after Maghrib. Nowadays ‗friends' are shayaateen.
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- The Majlis Vol 27 No 01
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- 6
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