Islam gives importance to every affair of life. Thus, there is not an aspect of your life—O Muslim—except that Islam clarifies and explains it. And this is from its concern for rectifying and unifying the community. And because the rectification of the community follows the rectification of the family, and the unity of the community is a result of the unity of the family, and the happiness of the family is connected to the spouses, Islam gives a great deal of importance to the spouses.
As it relates to the rights of the spouses—O brothers, O beloved—there are rights before the engagement, rights at the time of the engagement, rights at the time of the marriage contract, and rights which remain throughout the affair of marriage.
So the wife asks, the writers write, and the publishers produce a large variety of books in clarification of the husbands rights upon the wife, yet we only see a small amount of writings, compared to the vast number of works, addressing the wife’s rights from her husband.
Compilation from two treatises “The Obligation of Protecting Yourself & Family from the Fire” & “The Fire, it let’s nothing remain & leaves nothing [unburnt]”.
Allah said: “The women are a body cover, or screen, for you to enjoy the pleasure of living with them, and you are the same for them.” [Surah Al-Baqarah: 187]
This is how the Qur’an in many verses speaks about the establishment of an Islamic family; and this is done in various ways, as we have witnessed.
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