The expense of the wife between the text and the application

Section: RESEARCH
Published
Aug 4, 2025
Pages
41-83

Abstract

The alimony is a name of spending, but in terms of terminological is what a person spends on his children, the alimony is the husband's spending on his wife from the money, food, housing, and so on, and the alimony is one of the effects of the marriage contract. The husband is obligated to spend on his wife legally, even if she is rich. The husband's duty on the wife is to spend on his wife fixed alimony as explained in the Quran and Sunnah and consensus. Many verses indicated to commit of the husband to spend on his wife as the Almighty says [Let a man of wealth spend from his wealth, and he whose provision is restricted - let him spend from what Allah has given him. Allah does not charge a soul except [according to] what He has given it. Allah will bring about, after hardship, ease] and the Almighty said ( but the father of the child shall bear the cost of the mother's food and clothing on a reasonable basis) and the Almighty said (Let the women live (in 'iddat) in the same style as ye live, according to your means). As for the Prophetic Sunnah, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said in the farewell_sermon O people, your women have rights upon you and you owe rights upon them that they should not allow anyone other than you to sit on your furniture, let not anyone you dislike enter your houses except with your permission and not to commit the guilty of lewdness. If they do that, then Allah has permitted to forsake them in bed and to hit them but not in a harsh manner. If they desisted from that and obeyed, you have to provide for them and clothe them on a reasonable basis. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said to Hind the wife of Abu Sufyan (take what meets your requirements and the requirements of your child without being exploited).

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