Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 387
Undated 387 among them, they hate her and start pointing at her, saying that she is wearing dirty clothes and has no jewellery. Obedience to the Husband The Promised Messiah as said: A woman must obey her husband. The Holy Prophet s as said that if her husband tells a woman to pick up a pile of bricks and put it somewhere, and when that woman puts the big pile of bricks in that other place, he tells her to put it back in its orig- inal location, the woman should not squabble at all with him but should obey her husband. Women’s Rights The Promised Messiah as said: Women should not think that any oppression has been done to them because men also have been told to fulfil many of their rights. Instead, it is as if women have been told to sit on a chair and men have been told to take care of them. All her clothing, food, and needs are the man’s responsibility. The Promised Messiah as said: Look! A cobbler dishonestly fills a shoe with something or the other only so that he may save something with which to feed his wife and children. Soldiers go into battle and lay down their lives just so that somehow the wife and children can survive.