A while back a conference took place at Markaz us-Sunnah, Alperton. The guest speaker was Shaykh Dr. Abdul-Khaliq Madi (hafidhahullah Ta'ala).
Over 3 days the Shaykh (hafidhahullah Ta'ala) taught: The Beneficial Means to a Happy Life by Shaykh Abdur-Rahman al-Sa'di. Also, during this conference there was an almost 3 hours long.
The question below has been slightly paraphrased for ease of understanding:
Question 7: The question comes in two parts. The first part is, what is the ruling for a husband that struggles a lot to pray Fajr in Jama’ah and his wife has tried a lot, almost everything to wake him up for Salah, but he doesn't! Very rarely does he go to Jama’ah, and his excuse is that he's always tired and he's stressed, and he has lots of debt problems and his family on the south of and all of this doesn't help him. I’ve tried giving him naseehah, cold water, threatening with asking for divorce, but it's not working, and he says that he's tried but doesn't really know why he’s struggled so much with Fajr and why he doesn't pray. As his wife I feel I hate staying with him.
The second part is that he also smokes, and I've told him that it is Haram to smoke and it's like killing and he says that this is my weakness, and I cannot give up smoking the one go! What is your advice to me and my husband as he might be hearing this lecture now and note that we have a son together, and I fear that he might have bad influence on him?
Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه) narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever invites to guidance will be rewarded like those who follow him in the guidance are rewarded, and that will not decrease the reward of those who have followed him." [Collected by Imām Muslim]
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