Riyadh - A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia says wives are
permitted to refuse to have sex with their husbands who do not comply
with precautions against the novel coronavirus.
"You are not a sinner at all... you are protecting yourself," Sheikh
Abdullah Ahmed al-Mutlaq, a member of a senior scholars' authority in
the conservative kingdom, answered a viewer who sent her question to
a TV religious show called Fatw a, which is aired on state TV.
The woman said that her husband does not stay at home and is not
sticking to the declared restrictions. She added she fears getting
infected with the coronavirus if she responds to his desire to sleep
with her.
"Immunise yourself and stay away from him. If a husband is careless,
so the wife has the right to refrain from him," the cleric said.