<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"><br /> <br /> <br /> The relations between husband and wife are one of love and affection.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A wife is a means of comfort and solace for the husband, as Allah says in the Holy Quran:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">And He (Allah) is the One Who has created you from a single soul and made his spouse from that, so that he might find comfort in her. Then when man covers her, she conceives and, bearing a light burden, moves around. Later, when she grows heavy, then both pray to their Lord, Allah: ?If You give us a healthy child, we shall certainly be amongst the thankful.? <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Surah A’araaf (7:189)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">A wife is obedient to her husband, a means of joy for him and wishes him good both in his presence and absence.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">There is a Hadith in Sunan Ibn Majah:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Translation:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Hadhrat Abu Umama (May Allah be well pleased with him) relates from the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) that He said:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A believer has not received a bounty better than a virtuous wife after the fear of Allah.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If he orders her, she obeys him.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If he sees her, she delights him.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If he swears by her, she fulfills it and even if the husband is absent, she wishes him well through her self and in the husband’s wealth.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith No. 1857)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">It should be noted that taking swearing by the wife’s name is used only as an illustration otherwise swearing by any other name other than Allah’s is not permissible at all.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">There is a Hadith in Mishkaat Ul Masabeeh:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Translation: It is narrated on the authority of Hadhrat Anas (May Allah be well pleased with him) that the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If a woman offers the 5 daily Salaat regularly, fasts in Ramadhan, guards her chastity and obeys her husband, then she will be allowed to enter paradise from any of its doors that she wants to.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(Mishkaat Ul Masabeeh, Pg. No. 281)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">On one hand, these glad tidings are given for an obedient wife and on the other, there are severe warnings for a disobedient wife who displeases her husband.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There is a Hadith in Sahih Bukhari:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Translation: It is narrated on the authority of Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (May Allah be well pleased with him) that the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If the husband calls the wife to the bed and she refuses and the husband spends the night in anger, then the angels curse the woman until dawn.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(Sahih Bukhari, Hadith No.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>3237)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">There is a Hadith in Shua’bul Iman:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Translation: It is narrated on the authority of Hadhrat Jabir (May Allah be well pleased with him) that the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There are 3 people of whom neither a Salaat is accepted nor any good deed is greeted with acceptance, a slave who has run away until he returns to his master and places his hand in the hand of his master, a woman whose husband is displeased with her, an intoxicated person until he sobers.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(Shua’bul Iman, Hadith No. 8470)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana">The wife should obey the husband and try her best to please him.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana"> </span></p>