The Islamic law (Sharia) has paid the greatest attention to wives and granted the certain rights that are based on wisdom, justice, and the interests of both spouses. These include:
1. Disbursement
It is obligatory upon the husbands to provide their wives with the essentials needs, such as clothing, food, and shelter, as well as other requisites that meet their status and way of living.
From the viewpoint of the Islamic laws, disbursement is a common right that husbands must carry out for their wives, no matter how wealthy they are. This right, however, does not cease to be valid unless if the wife is disobedient or exempt him from it.
Furthermore, husbands are not allowed to coerce their wives to do the household managements or nurse the babies unless they themselves do such matters voluntarily.
2. Good Companionship
Wife is the husband’s intimate companion and life partner. She shares with him both the pleasant and unpleasant situations, consoles him in sorrow and joy, does household chores, and take proper care of the family members. Hence, it is necessary for the husbands to appreciate the relentless efforts of their wives and treat them with kindness and leniency. Unfortunately, some husbands think that manhood cannot be achieved unless they control, mistreat, insult, and disgrace their wives.
This is indeed a wrong perception. As a matter of fact, such qualities are detestable, since it indicates the complexity and feebleness of their personality. In addition, it also creates disorderliness in marital life and destroy the family pleasure.
Of course, due to her emotions, woman is sensitive and quick-tempered; therefore, she may, sometimes, utter an unbecoming word or stinging reproach originated from a mental excitement or emotional agitation. In such cases, the husbands are required to control themselves and reciprocate it with forgiveness, so that the matrimonial relationship will go on peacefully.
Thus, it is expected of a man, when his wife exceeds the limits of disobedience to him, to treat her gently through admonition. But if such means prove futility, he must follow the method of ignoring her and avoiding sleeping with her. If this is also useless, he may then beat her slightly, but not severely:
...As for those [wives] whose misconduct you fear, [first] advise them, and [if ineffective] keep away from them in the bed, and [as the last resort] beat them… (1)
3. Protection
Because the wives are under the guardianship of the husbands, they are responsible for defending them against any matter that may cause them moral or material injury or may defame or soil their dignities, such as dissoluteness and suspicious association with the other sex or immoral women.
How ugly those men who shove their wives in mixed clubs and dissolute parties and allow them to dance with whomsoever they want are! They try to close their eyes before the serious religious, moral, and social dangers of such gathering that threatens the family entities with disorder and disintegration.
Man, too, must be jealous and protect his wife and family against the trickeries and misleading rumors of the invasions that could deceive many male and female Muslim, who lack adequate knowledge of the principles and concepts of their religion, to repeat these rumors just like parrots. The Qur’an says:
False Rights
Intending to extinguish the luminous light of Islam, the anti-Muslims have dedicated all efforts to invade the Islamic world with weapons of delusions and false principles. Unfortunately, the inexperienced and the dull responded to such strange concepts, and went on imitating and calling for them as if they are within their untouchable values.
Because of that, curtains covered the Islamic portrait that has been shining with beauty, illumination, and ideality but a new deformed, hideous portrait came out. Islam, thus, began to feel strange and alienated among its people, while the non-Islamic concepts occupied large positions in the intellects and feelings of Muslims to clear them out of values and idealities.
Moreover, many writers have been hired to spread non-Islamic traditions in the Islamic environment through false claims of defending, and equalizing women with men. Thus, let us now refer to some of these deceptive rumors:
Removal of the Veil
As they could not stand seeing Muslim women guard themselves from dissoluteness and lechery through veiling themselves with hijab, the propagandists of liberalism tried to seduce them by means of removing the veil and grooming themselves, so as to take them away from the highness of their dignities and boudoirs.
Having been deceived by such false calls, some women, unfortunately, responded and began to remove their veils and show their beauty and charms so as to prepossess eyes and hearts shamelessly.
All over their extensive history, Muslim women, who ignored the dangers and slips that were plotted against them, have never been seduced in such a mean and illusory way.
Unlike the idea of the dissolute, hijab is not an aspect of retardation or reactionism, it is in fact, an aspect of modesty and chastity since it guards women against in decorum and deterioration, protects them from the snooping of the aberrant, and keep them away from the slips of vices and seductions.
Finally, Muslims must learn lessons from the Western nations that have suffered many misfortunes of immorality as well as ethical, physical, and social tragedies all because they allowed removal of veiling, primping up, and mix of the sexes to prevail in their societies.
Moral Defects
Primping up and mixing of the sexes have created moral complications in the Western milieus. Thus, they have no longer denied the sexual vices or felt ashamed of their sins. Accordingly, they have become the subjects of moral diseases that massacred them so heavily that the honorable personalities have had to declare their denial and complaint and warned against the horrible dangers of such dissolution.
Depicting the collapse of morality in his country, Paul Beaudre, the French author said that it had no longer been odd to hear about the existence of sexual relations between the relatives, such as fathers and daughters and brothers with their sisters in some French provinces as well as the crowded quarters of cities.
The Fourteen Committee, whose task is to inspect the ambushes of lechery reported that most of the nightclubs, dance halls, manicure places, stores of cosmetics, massage rooms, and coiffures have become brothels or, perhaps, something too horrible to be mentioned.
Ben B. Lindsey the judge of Los Angeles in 1934- predicted that forty-five per cent of girls of schools profane their honors before they leave schools. In the higher stages of study as the judge added- this rate raises vastly.
In his book titled History of Lechery, George Scat, referring to the common state in his country, said that numbers of the non-professional prostitutes have come to an unprecedented rate. Among almost all the social classes, you can find such prostitutes. In the sight of girls nowadays, sexual intercourse, lechery, and even abnormality have become within the modern styles of living.
Such moral corruption can be found even with the children of both sexes, because they have been affected by the crooked environment and the sexual incentives. In his book tiled Sexual Regulations, Dr. Rodet Hugo said that it had not been odd or abnormal to see the seven or eight-year-old girls play sexually with boys or, even, practice sexual intercourse with them.
A physician from the city of Baltimore reported that in a period of one year, more than one thousand suits of committing fornication with less than twelve-year-old girls were brought before the courts in that city alone.
Moral corruption has not stopped at such lowly levels, but it has exceeded all limits of normal sexual relations to reach a stage of perversion and sexual deviation. It has become familiar, under the encouragement of the law, to see a boy get married to a boy of his same sex and to see some people congratulating such marriage!
Dr. Hooker says that it has been common, in the faculties, nursery schools, and even religious schools, to hear about the commitment of sodomy among the students most of whom have completely lost any desire for the other sex.
Let us now ask the parrot-like propagandists of liberalism whether this is the very goal that they want for the Islamic nations and themselves, or whether they do not understand the results of their liberalism!
Beyond dispute, every individual who calls for liberalism and primping up is no more than an axe deconstructing the entity of the Islamic society, and a pioneer of evil and dissolution in his nation and country.The Qur’an says:
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1. Quran 4: 34
2. Quran 66:6
3. Quran 24:19
