Prayer: If someone has two watans, must their wife and children follow the same ruling or decide independently?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Prayer: If someone has two watans, must their wife and children follow the same ruling or decide independently?
English:
Question #685:
Someone has two watans. Therefore, he performs full prayer in both places and fasts. Please answer this question: Do his dependants, i.e. wife and children, have to follow their guardian in this matter, or may they act independently on their own?
Answer #685:
It is permissible for the wife not to adopt the new watan of her husband as her own, but as for the children, if they are minors and dependent in making decisions and in earning money, or they are subject to their father’s decision with respect to this matter, the new watan of their father will be considered their watan as well.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer