Q: My daughter runs a small maktab from home wherein she takes a small fee for teaching the preschool children.
My husband says as she is earning, his responsibility towards seeing to their needs is over... Moreover she should contribute by paying a small rental for the room she is using. Is his thinking correct?
Q: I am a working woman and married. Both me and my husband are working in respectable jobs. I handle my own personal expenses from day one of marriage and have never asked for pocket money from my husband.
I have two children aged 1 year and 1 month. My husband refuses to help in the my children's financial needs. Both of them are on formula milk and their combined expenditure is around 80000 which I am solely bearing along with my own expenses.
My husband's income is more than me. He refuses to contribute even half. Alhamdulillah, I am managing but my question is what are the rights of such a husband/father over his wife and children if he refuses to contribute even 50 percent financially if he has more than enough money. What are the faraiz and instructions for the mother/wife in such a case who despite being married is living like a single mother?
Q: Is it a sin on the part of a man not to provide his wife and family with their basic needs including food, clothing, self-care etc.?
I have read your answers on his obligations to his family. What is the harms if he fails to fulfill these obligations.
Q: If husband does not provide you with expenses regarding shopping and other medical needs and basic daily needs and said you have your own job you can fulfill your expenses then what does Islam say?
In contrast, he fixed an amount for his parents but not for his wife, so what does Islam suggest?
Q: My wife and I are both working and we are together trying to make our lives better. I am from Pakistan and I am not earning too much like I can take care of them strictly speaking but I can't save any money. We have 1 kid and another on the way In Sha Allah.
Together we are trying to save money but my wife insists that it's my responsibility to take care of the house which I admit. However I'm afraid that I alone cannot keep up our way of life or have any savings and even get our own house (I am living with my parents in joint family). She keeps saying this and it hurts me a lot since I only asked for a portion of her salary which I use to spend on her and the kids and still it makes me feel like a villain and being reminded again and again.
I need your guidance about this problem.
Q: If the husband is poor and the wife is rich, the wife gets the nafaqa of average quality. Does this means it will be greater than that of what the husband's family is used togetting and less than that of the wife's family?
The problem is that if the husband is poor, how can he provide with greater than what his family is used to?
Q: As far as I understand, in a marriage, the wife is only entitled to nafaqah. This nafaqah comprises of two sets of clothes a year and some flour daily for her to make bread for herself. The wife is not entitled to anything else.
However, the wife has to serve the husband and do everything for him. He only gives her two sets of clothing yet she has to wash all the clothes in his wardrobe. He only gives her flour, yet she must prepare for him whatever he wants, and while he is eating good food, she must eat plain bread. She has to clean, dust, mop, do the laundry and take care of the children, but she is not entitled to anything.
Does this not show that Islam has given much more to men, as they can enjoy everything while the wife must survive on the bare minimum?
Q: I live with my in laws, and though I have a separate portion, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom, my husband does not allow me to use the separate entrance or exit of that house portion. He forced me to use the door outside that goes through his parent's portion of the house.
Does Islam allow me to have a separate entry and exit from the house portion?
Q: A person is in debts. Financially, he isn't in a good condition. He got a wife and children that he is responsible for. He makes a second nikah. What will be the state of such a nikaah?
Q: Is it wrong of me if I don't divulge my earnings to my wife?