Thomas Hughes on Marriage
1838–1911 England
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11 quotes
"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."
"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.'"
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."
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."