Kind Treatment of Spouses

QUESTION: Will i get reward too if i morally support my husband in good deeds like he donated money for masjid or for water plant?

Charity, Kind Treatment of Spouses

23 Apr

ANSWER: If you encourage him to do good deeds, you will get rewarded.

QUESTION: Is it permissible for a man to say to a woman that you only belong in the kitchen?

Kind Treatment of Spouses

14 Apr

ANSWER: This is fine if she can also say to him that he only belongs in the barn!

QUESTION: My husband does not know to recite quran in Arabic so can i recite a full quran on his behalf? Wil he get that reward?

Innovations, Kind Treatment of Spouses, Reading/Reciting the Quran

08 Apr

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible and he won’t get the reward. You can recite it while he is listening to it and both of you will be rewarded for that.

QUESTION: Is it permissible for parents to want to know whether or not their daughter was a virgin before marriage? In my culture, it has been made completely that once a lady is married, her husband should buy gifts for the family if she is a virgin, and if not, they simply don’t speak about the matter. However, it is evident that she was not.

Kind Treatment of Spouses

21 Mar

ANSWER: What kind of culture is this?! This is absolutely prohibited and disrespectful for the girl!

QUESTION: Is it halal for the husband to help the wife cook or take turns to prepare meals if he already provides enough income for the family?

Kind Treatment of Spouses

19 Mar

ANSWER: No problem if he willingly helps out. He will be rewarded for that.

QUESTION: If a woman’s husband is currently unemployed and is unwillingly to pay for her delivery due to parents and rent, can he ask her father to bear the delivery and post delivery expenses even if the father is retired and chronically ill? Should the daughter sell some of her gold and not burden her father?

Fiqh of Marriage, Kind Treatment of Spouses

11 Mar

ANSWER: 1. Of course not! What kind of a man does that?! Its his child and he must bare all the expenses!!

QUESTION: Is it a husbands job to pay for wife’s visa expenses. The amount I need to pay for came at a shock to me after marriage and I’m struggling to pay it

Fiqh of Marriage, Kind Treatment of Spouses

10 Mar

ANSWER: Of course! The man is obliged to pay for all of his wife’s expenses.

QUESTION: I am married and live with my parents and sister. My sister is disabled. My father is partially blind. My mother has late stage cancer and a difficult person (always been abusive). My wife and Mom have issues. I have considered putting distance between my wife and Mom but my parents never accept any compromises (separate house, separate story). How can I give my wife her right of privacy?

Dealings and Attitudes with In-Laws, Fiqh of the family, Kind Treatment of Spouses

10 Mar

ANSWER: She has all the right in Islam to ask you for a separate accommodation. Your parents have no say or right in this. You must fear Allah and give your wife her rights. If you cannot give her a separate house, you must give her a separate room, washroom and a place to cook […]

QUESTION: Should a woman serve her MIL because her husband asks her to do it? Because he isn’t able to do it as he is busy with work. And he says things like “you must obey your husband in whatever he says, so please do it”

Dealings and Attitudes with In-Laws, Kind Treatment of Spouses

08 Mar

ANSWER: No, he has no right in ordering the wife to serve his parents or family! Why doesn’t he order her to wash the cars of the neighbors as well? He can hire a maid for his mom. If the wife does it out of love for her husband, without any pressure from him then […]

QUESTION: Can my husband not allow me all the time to even step out of home.i feel suffocated to be at home all the time.not even my side of family functions or any thing. Can i go from out without his permission when I’m at my parents house

Fiqh of Marriage, Kind Treatment of Spouses

22 Feb

ANSWER: You must not leave the house without his permission However if he is that controlling and preventing you from your basic human rights, you shouldn’t be in such a marriage as it would only deteriorate more and more You should have your father and siblings talk to him and if he doesn’t change, you […]

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