Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 418
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 418 he has also said that if it were permissible to prostrate to any- one other than God, I would have ordered that women should prostrate to their husbands. 1 If a woman says something bad about her husband or looks at him with contempt and does not stop even after hear- ing God’s command, she is cursed. God and the Messenger are angry with her. Women should not steal the property of their husbands and should protect themselves from n a ma h- rams [those outside the prohibited category]. And it should be remembered that except for the husband and those men with whom nik a h [marriage] is not allowed, purdah [the veil] must be observed from all other men. Satan is with them. Satan accompanies those women who do not observe purdah from n a ma h rams. It is also necessary for women not to allow wicked and ill-mannered women to come into their homes and not to employ them in their service because it is a grave sin for an evil woman to be in the company of a virtuous woman. 6. It is also a bad habit among women that when a woman’s hus- band wants to marry someone else due to some expediency, that woman and her relatives become furious and abusive and raise a clamour and unjustly persecute the poor man. Such women and their relatives are also wicked and corrupt, because Allah, the Lord of Glory, by His perfect wisdom, in which there are hundreds of reasons and experiences, has allowed men to have up to four wives at the time of their need or expediency. Thus, why should the person who marries according to the command of Allah and the Messenger be called evil? Such women and relatives with such habits who oppose God and His commandments are most wretched and siblings 1. Sunan Tirmidh i , kit a bur-Ri da‘ , b a bu m a j a ’a f i H aqqiz-Zawj ‘alal-Mar’ah, Hadith 1159 [Publisher]