Husband & Wife Rights and Duties - Sheikh Mohamed Ali Ferkous - IBN BADIS Edition

Conjugal rights are of three kinds: common rights between them and specific rights for each, that is, the rights of the woman towards her husband and the rights of the husband towards her.

Duties of the wife towards her husband

The duties of the wife towards her husband are grouped into two chapters.

·      Firstly, chapter 1 deals with the duties related to the wife. It consists of:

Obeying her husband in goodness

-       Preserving the honor of her husband and safeguarding his property and children

-       Taking into account the feelings of the husband and respecting his dignity and sensitivity

-       Being at the service of her husband, maintaining their home and educating their children;

-       Observing mourning during her waiting period if her husband were to die.

·      While chapter 2 outlines the prohibitions that must be strictly avoided:

-       The prohibition of obeying one's husband while disobeying Allah

-       The prohibition of harming one's husband

-       Likewise, the prohibition of making one's husband angry

-       Being ungrateful to one's husband

-       Then, the prohibition of asking the husband for divorce

-       The prohibition of denying one's husband the right to enjoy her

-       Furthermore, the prohibition of fasting outside of Ramadan without the husband's permission

-       Finally, the prohibition of removing one's clothes outside the marital home

·      The duties of the husband towards his wife

Regarding the duties of the husband towards his wife, these are divided into financial and non-financial rights.

·      Firstly, the financial rights:

-       Provide the dowry in full

-       Support the needs of the wife

-       Secondly, the non-financial rights

-       Behave properly with his wife

-       Protect his wife from the fire of hell

-       Not harm his wife

-       The obligation to be fair between his wife and his co-wife

-       The husband's jealousy for his wife

The common rights of both spouses with the book Husband and Wife Rights and Duties

Finally, through the act of marriage, Islam grants spouses rights established by the marital bond.

·      There is similarity in rights between the two spouses:

-       Recommend truth to each other, help each other in obedience to Allah, and remember piety towards Allah

-       Actualize affection and mercy in marital life

-       Establish trust and good opinion

-       Show patience and endure annoyance

-       Shared responsibility in building a harmonious family

·      Then, the rights arising from the marital bond

-       The lawfulness of pleasure

-       The confirmation of filiation

-       Or, the confirmation of the prohibition of marriage;

-       Then, the confirmation of the right to inherit from each other.

Cover: Soft

Dimensions: 21x15cm

Number of Pages: 142

Author: Sheikh Ferkous

Publisher: ibn Badis