ANSWER:

He is rewarded for being considerate providing this doesn’t harm him.

A man who, whenever he ask wife for sex but accepts it if she asks to wait for another time, out of desire to not cause discomfort for her, & only has sex if she’s ‘in the mood’. From Islam’s perspective, do we praise this man for being considerate to wife’s feeling or do we say he should not do this as it may give bad encouragement to wife (eg it may end up that she keeps doing this)?

Fiqh of Marriage, Kind Treatment of Spouses |