Domestic Issues and Their Solutions — Page 170
170 put oneself in trial. ’ (Al Hakm, Vol. II, dated 2 March 1898, p. 2. Tafseer Hazrat Masih Maud, Surah Al Nisa, verse 4, Vol. II. p. 211). Here, the connotation of putting oneself in trial is by taking a second wife. Fulfilling rights of the wife is such a huge responsibility that by not discharging it one is embroiled in tribulation and incurs displeasure of God Almighty. I had mentioned a prayer of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) that he used to supplicate Allah the Exalted that habitually he tried to give everyone their rights; however, he sought Allah’s forgiveness if due to a good attribute of any one of his wives he involuntarily reacted differently to them. This is exactly in line with human nature and Allah the Exalted, Who has created man and has also given him permission to take more than one wife, Who knows the state of man’s heart and is even aware of the inner most recesses of a person and has knowledge of the unseen, has explained in the Holy Qur’an that a situation can arise when in certain circumstances you will be more inclined to one of them [wives]. In such a situation it is evidently essential to fully meet the obvious rights, just as Allah the Exalted s tates in Surah Al Nisa: