Domestic Issues and Their Solutions — Page 143
143 realisation remains, no woman can do any such action which would take her away from ri ghteousness. As a wife she would be perfectly sincere with her husband, and would be the guardian of her husband’s home, and rather than waste his wealth, she would spend it correctly. Many women follow righteousness and with righteousness they also adopt sense. I n spite of low income, they save up something from what their husbands give them and regularly save it and at difficult times give it to their husbands and the husbands have no idea that they had been saving. Thus, they protect the husband’s wealth in private, or if they have a need, they inform them and use the money. They watch over their children properly. This watching over is not done just because it is the husband’s children, rather because of a greater reason, that the children are a trust of the nation and a trust of the Jama’at. In addition, they befriend women of high morals. A sincere wife never makes wrong kinds of friends who may lead her to erroneous ways , to squeeze out as much money as possible from the husband, who advise them to fre ely go places without the husband; telling her that after all she too has a right to freedom; who advise her to maintain relations with whomsoever she likes on whatsoever basis. Neither can women who give such advice be those who ‘safeguard in private’ nor can they be those who befriend such women and put the advice of such women in practice. ’