Prayer: Must a wife follow her husband in rulings of watan and 10-day stay?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Prayer: Must a wife follow her husband in rulings of watan and 10-day stay?

English:

Question #700:

Should the wife follow her husband with respect to watan and ten-day stay?

Answer #700:

Matrimony alone does not make the wife follow her husband involuntarily. Therefore, the wife may choose not to follow the husband with respect to the adoption of watan or the intent of ten-day stay in a place. However, if the wife is not independent in her decisions and living, and she submits to her husband’s will with regard to taking a watan and abandoning it, her husband’s intent will suffice for her in that regard, and the city to which her husband moves with her, intending to adopt it as his watan to live there permanently, will be her watan as well. Similarly, the husband’s abandoning their earlier watan, along with leaving it for another place, will also be considered as her abandoning her watan. Concerning her staying for ten days during travel, assuming that she submits to her husband’s wish, her knowledge of the husband’s intent of ten-day stay will be enough, even if she is compelled to accompany her husband during the period of his ten-day stay there.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Prayer