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"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."

— Thomas 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."

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