THE TRUE QUALITY OF A GOOD WIFE

-- Thauban reported that the Messenger of Allah said: "The best of the property is a remembering tongue (about Allah), and a grateful heart and a believing wife who helps him in his faith."

(Ahmad, Ibn Majah).

(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

-- Hazrat Aishah (R.A.) (NOTE 39) told that Allah's Messenger said to her, "If you wish to join me (in the Hereafter), be satisfied with worldly things to the extent of a rider's provision, avoid sitting with the rich, and do not consider a garment worn out till you patch it."

(Tirmidhi).

(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

-- Hadrat Anas reported that the Holy Prophet had said: "For the woman her husband is Paradise as well as Hell."

(Ahmad, Nasai).

(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

-- Imran bin Hussain reported Allah's Messenger as saying, "The perfume used by men should have an odour, but no colour, and the perfume used by women should have colour but no odour."

(Abu Daud).

(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

-- Abu Musa reported Allah's Messenger as saying, "Every eye is adulterous (when it cast glances with lust on strange women) and when a woman perfumes herself and passes a company, she is such and such." -meaning adulterous.

(Tirmidhi).

(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

-- Hadrat Aisha reports that she asked the Holy Prophet whose right was greatest on the woman and the Holy Prophet said: Husband's. Then she asked: Whose right was the greatest on man and the Holy Prophet said: His mother's.

(Bazaz, Hakim).

(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

-- Hadrat Ibn Umar reported that the Holy Prophet had said: "Allah would not like even to look at the woman who is not thankful to her husband."

(Nasai).

(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

-- Hazrat Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that the Messenger Of Allah said: " When a wife spends food of her house without spoiling there is for her its reward for what she gives away and there is also a reward for her husband for what he earns, and the like (reward) for the storekeeper - none of them diminishing aught from the reward of another."

(Bukhari).

(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

-- A hadith related by Hadrat Anas says that the Holy Prophet observed: "When the following five evils shall creep into my Ummah, it will then be destroyed:

1. invoking curses on one another
2. use of liquor on large scale
3. wearing of silken clothes
4. increased number of dancing girls and their frequent entertainment shows in large gatherings.
5. when man shall engage in sexual intercourse with males and women shall engage in sexual acts with other females i.e. sodomy and homosexuality."

(Baihaqi).

(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

 

 

 

(NOTE 39)
Radiallah anha (Allah be pleased with her).