Summary

Prologue to the series

Introduction

Summary

Prologue to the series

Introduction

Part I

Duties of the wife towards her husband

Chapter I: Duties of the wife towards her husband:

• Section I: Obeying your husband in good
• Section II: Preserve the honor of her husband and safeguard her property and her children.
• Section III: Take into account the feelings of the husband and respect his dignity and sensitivity
• Section IV: Being at the service of one's husband, tending one's otter and educating one's children
• Section V: Observing mourning during the period of idduity when your husband dies

Chapter II: Prohibitions to absolutely avoid:

• Section I: The prohibition of obeying one's husband by disobeying Allah
• Section II: The prohibition of harming one's husband
• Section III: The prohibition of making one's husband angry
• Section IV: The prohibition of being ungrateful towards one's husband
• Section V: The prohibition on asking the husband to divorce her
• Section VI: The prohibition of refusing to allow one's husband to enjoy her
• Section VII: The prohibition on revealing the secrets of marital relations
• Section VIII: The prohibition of fasting outside of Ramadan without the permission of the husband
• Section IX: The ban on removing one's clothes outside the marital home

Part II

Duties of the husband towards his wife

Chapter I: Financial rights:

• Section I: Give the dowry in full
• Section II: Providing for the needs of the wife

Chapter II Non-financial rights:

• Section I: Behave properly with your wife:
  • Aspect I: Talk to her well and take care of her external appearance in front of her
  • Aspect ll: Being affectionate towards your wife, joking and playing with her, and being considerate of her young age
  • Aspect III: Having fun with your wife, making sure you talk to her and listen to her
  • Aspect IV: The husband must show generosity in spending towards his wife
  • Aspect V: Turning a blind eye to the faults he hates in his wife and to her shortcomings and errors as long as it does not exceed the limits of religion
  • Aspect VI: Not revealing her secrets, not mentioning her faults and not spreading what she says
  • Aspect VII: thinking well of your wife
  • Aspect VIII: Helping your wife with household chores
  • Aspect IX: The fact that the husband fulfills the natural desire of his wife through coitus
• Section II: Preserving one's wife from hell fire
• Section III: Do not harm your wife
  • Physical nuisance
  • Moral nuisance
  • NB: Means of correction
• Section IV: The obligation to be equitable between one's wife and co-wife

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Chapter II Non-financial rights:

• Section I: Behave properly with your wife:
  • Aspect I: Talk to her well and take care of her external appearance in front of her
  • Aspect ll: Being affectionate towards your wife, joking and playing with her, and being considerate of her young age
  • Aspect III: Having fun with your wife, making sure you talk to her and listen to her
  • Aspect IV: The husband must show generosity in spending towards his wife
  • Aspect V: Turning a blind eye to the faults he hates in his wife and to her shortcomings and errors as long as it does not exceed the limits of religion
  • Aspect VI: Not revealing her secrets, not mentioning her faults and not spreading what she says
  • Aspect VII: thinking well of your wife
  • Aspect VIII: Helping your wife with household chores
  • Aspect IX: The fact that the husband fulfills the natural desire of his wife through coitus
• Section II: Preserving one's wife from hell fire
• Section III: Do not harm your wife
  • Physical nuisance
  • Moral nuisance
  • NB: Means of correction
• Section IV: The obligation to be equitable between one's wife and co-wife
• Section V: The husband's jealousy for his wife
• The laudable forms of jealousy
  • Form I: Feeling jealous when she shows her adornment to others (apart from her husband or her Maharimes)
  • Form II: That he feels jealous when she loosens her tongue to say bad things, utter bad things or vulgarities
  • Form III: That he experiences jealousy when she enters the homes of strange men
  • Form IV: That he feels jealous when she leaves his house showing off her beauty, or perfumed, or adorned with any kind of jewelry or makeup or dressed but at the same time naked
  • Form VI: That he feels jealousy for her while protecting her from temptation
  • Blameful jealousy

Part III

Rights common to both spouses

Chapter I: The similarity of rights between the two spouses:

• Section I: Recommending the truth to one another, helping one another in obedience to Allah, and remembering piety toward Allah
• Section II: Realizing affection and mercy in married life
• Section III: Establishing Trust and Good Opinion
• Section IV: Show patience and endure nuisance
• Section VI: Common responsibility in the constitution of a harmonious family

Chapter II: Rights arising from the marital bond:

• Section I: The permissibility of pleasure
• Section II: Confirmation of filiation
• Section III: Confirmation of the prohibition of marriage
• Section IV: Confirmation of each other's right to inheritance