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1838–1911 England
Thomas Patrick Hughes, (26 March 1838 - 8 August 1911) was a British Anglica missionary who served under the auspices of the Church Mission Society (CMS) in Peshawar in British India (now Pakistan) for 20 years. Noted for his facility with languages, Islamic scholarship and contributions to the completion All Saints Memorial Church in Peshawar.
Also known as: T. P. Hughes, T.P. Hughes
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Marry women who will love their husbands and be very prolific, for I want you to be more numerous than any other people.
"When a man calls his wife, she must come, although she be at an oven."
"All young men who have arrived at the ago of puberty should marry, for marriage prevents sins. He who cannot marry should fast."
"When any of you wishes to demand a woman in marriage, if he can arrange it, let him see her first."
"When a Muslim marries he perfects half his religion, and he should practice abstinence for the remaining half."
"The best wedding is that upon which the least trouble and expense is bestowed."
"That is the moat perfect Muslim whose disposition is the best, and the best of you is he who behaves best to his wives."
"Not one of you must whip his wife like whipping a slave."
"When a man has two wives and does not treat them equally, he will come on the Day of Resurrection with half his body fallen off."
"A Muslim must not hate his wife, for if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, thou let him he pleased with another that is good."
"The Prophet used to divide his time equally amongst his wives, and he would say, 'O God, I divide impartially that which thou hast put in my power.'"
"The worst of feasts are marriage feasts, to which the rich are invited and the poor left out, and he who abandons the acceptation of an invitation, then verily disobeys God and His Prophet."
The Prophet, moreover, has said we are directed to make war upon men only until such time as they shall confess, ‘There is no God but one God.’
"Beware! make not large settlements upon women; because, if great settlements were a cause of greatness in the world and of righteousness before God, surely it would be most proper for the Prophet of God to make them."
"When anyone demands your daughter in marriage, and you are pleased with his disposition and his faith, then give her to him; for if you do not so, then there will be strife and contention in the world."
Admonish your wives with kindness, because woman were created from a crooked bone of the side; therefore, if you wish to straighten it, you will break it, and if you let it alone, it will always be crooked."
The word witr literally means "odd number," and tradition says: "God is odd, He loves the odd."
"If a woman marries without the consent of her guardian, her marriage is null and void...; then, if her marriage hath been consummated, the woman shall take her dower; if her guardians dispute about her marriage, then the king is her guardian."
Regarding the treatment. of wives, the following verse in the Qur'an (Surah iv. 38) allows the husband absolute power to correct them: "Chide those whose refractoriness you have cause to fear. Remove them into sleeping chambers apart, and beat them. But if they are obedient to you, then seek not occasion against them."
"A Muslim cannot obtain anything better than an amiable and beautiful wife, such a wife who, when ordered by her husband to do a thing, will obey, and if her husband looks at her will be happy; and if her husband swears by her, she will make him a swearer of truth; and if ha be absent from her, she will honour him with her own person and property."
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