Domestic Issues and Their Solutions — Page 82
82 responsible to pay all the rights of men, men are responsible to pay all the rights of women. ’ Huzoor e Anwer added: ‘ T here is a vernacular idiom that the status of a woman is like that of a shoe. This is an utterly despicable ideology and the idiom is wrong. This idiom indicates that when a husband has had enough of his wife and happens to like another woman, he can marry her and leave the first wife without paying any regard to her sentiments. This indeed would be a very despicable thing to do. A woman is not an object but is a person with feelings and sentiments. Men have been told that it is extremely wrong of them to find excuses to make the wife’s life miserable by deeming her l owly and treating her heinously. She has been a source of peace in their home for a long period, she is the mother of their children and has endured pain for their sake. Then unjustifiable restrictions are placed on women not to leave the home in the name of purdah! If a woman goes to the mosque for Ja ma’at work, allegations are made that she goes elsewhere. This is extremely vulgar and men have been forbidden from it. Husbands should treat their wives in a way that they forge a relationship like that of t wo true friends. Just as two true friends are ready to make sacrifices for each other, so should husband and wife. The bond in which husband and wife are joined is a life - long pact and in Islam honouring pacts is a basic commandment. Those who fulfil pacts are liked by