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length and said, 0 Peoplet surely there are rights in favour of your
women which are incumbent upon theme" And he ended the message with
the words "Have therefore fear of God with regard to women, and I
enjoin you to treat them well. " A husband also should trust his
wife. The trust between husband and wife is one of the major
components of a successful marriage. It is important for the
husband not to speak ill of or defame his wife, or to make
accusation which may endanger this marital life and destroy the
family. Moreover. if a man is away or absent from his family for a
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long time, then on returning home, he should not enter his house
unannounced at night. He should not surprise his wife in circumstances
when she might prefer not to see him, i. e. being untidy or unprepared
for him. Jabir bin Abd Allah narrated : The Prophet disliked that
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one should go to one's family at night on returning home from a
long journey
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Trusting one's wife is an important conception in
Islam; the husband must not rush in to suspicion which has no
foundation. Abu Huraiah reported: A Bedouin came to Allah's
Messenger and said, "My wife has given birth to a dark complexioned
child and'I have disowned him. Thereupon, Allah's Apostle said.
Have you any camels ? He said, Yes. What is their colour ? He said,
They are red. He said., Is there a dark one among them ? He said.
Yes, Allah's Messenger. Allah's Messenger said, How has it come
about-? He said, Messenger of Allah, it is perhaps due to the
to which it has reverted, whereupon the Prophet said, It (the birth
of the black child) may be due to the strain which he (the child)
might have reverted.
3 However, if a husband accuses his wife of
adultery, even without evidence, and without four witnesses, then
Al-Lian (a kind of irrevocable divorce) must be taken as we shall
l; ", See"Amfa, op. cit., P. 74
2. '" 'Sahih'al-Bukhari. Vol. 7, op. cit., P. 123
3i Bukhari and Muslim, quoted by Imran. op.. cit., P. 30
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