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What is the Sharia ruling on a husband's absence from his wife and children for a week as punishment for her not inviting his other wife to a wedding, claiming he swore an oath to do so?

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The marital rights ordained by Allah for each spouse ensure an ideal married life and include patience and enduring mistakes to preserve the family. The man must treat his wife kindly, deal with her honorably, and bear with what comes from her, for perfection is not imagined in a woman, and her nature contains crookedness, as stated in the Hadith: "Treat women kindly, for woman was created from a crooked rib." Not inviting the relatives of the second wife to a wedding celebration is not a right of the husband that warrants discipline or abandoning the wife. If the husband swears an oath to that effect, he must expiate his oath and do what is better. The husband must fulfill the right of the first wife if he stays with the other wife, because her right does not lapse.

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