Forty Gems of Beauty — Page 85
85 Another wisdom underlying it is that the rights of man in Islam have been assigned by God and the law lays extreme stress on these rights, so much so that, according to a Hadith, God forgives the sins relating to man’s obligations to Him but does not forgive the sins pertaining to man’s obligations to man, until the concerned man himself does not forgive. It is in the spirit of these two underlying realities that the Holy Prophet (May peace and blessings of Allah be on him) has said in emphatic language, reinforced with an oath, that no woman can be considered as having done her duty to her God until and unless she has done her duty to her husband. As to the obligations of a wife, according to the Holy Quran and the Hadith, she owes her husband that she be obedient to him, should show him proper respect, should love him, should be faithful to him, should bring up his children well, should look after his property and serve him to the best of her capacity. As against this, the husband is obligated to love her and treat her with compassion and with winsome ways, see to her comfort, respect her feelings and provide her necessary maintenance as best as he can afford. There is hardly any gainsaying the fact that if the husband and the wife respect the rights of one another, a Muslim home can become a veritable paradise.