Her husband divorced her; is his father still a mahram to her?
Question I married a woman and she lived with me for a while, then I divorced her and she married another man after me. She is asking whether it is permissible for her to meet my father after I divorced her, and to greet him with salaam. Praise be to Allah. There is nothing wrong…
Question
Praise be to Allah.
There is nothing
wrong with that, because Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Forbidden
to you (for marriage) are: … The wives of your sons who (spring) from
your own loins,”
[an-Nisa’ 4:23].
They are the wives of the sons, so if the son divorces her, she is still a
mahram to his father.
The mahram
connection between her and his father remains in effect. That is similar to
the case of the father’s wife; if the father divorces her, she is still a
mahram to the son. Allah, may He be exulted, says (interpretation of the
meaning): “And
marry not women whom your fathers married”
[an-Nisa’ 4:22].
If his father divorces her, she remains a mahram to his sons. The same
applies to the wives of sons. End quote.
Shaykh ‘Abd
al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allah have mercy on him).
