Is there any advice for husbands regarding good treatment and providing recreation for their wives?
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The questioner:
This is a woman asking. She says: Honorable Shaykh, I am a married woman with children. Whenever I ask my husband to take me out for a picnic, or to travel, or even just to the countryside, he refuses and objects without any reason. Is this behavior of his permissible in the Shari'ah on a permanent basis? I ask you to give advice on good treatment and to remind us of the Sunnah of our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in his treatment of his wives.
The Shaykh:
Yes. The husband treats his wives with good conduct. Treat them with good conduct. Part of that is that he takes them out to the countryside and lets them relax their hearts, like other people, and does not confine them to the house all the time, always and forever. This is their right over him. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
With modesty and with keeping away from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). As for taking them to gatherings, rest houses, and mixed picnics, this is not permissible. But he may go to the countryside. And he does not expose them to fitnah. There is nothing wrong with that. Yes.
This is a woman asking. She says: Honorable Shaykh, I am a married woman with children. Whenever I ask my husband to take me out for a picnic, or to travel, or even just to the countryside, he refuses and objects without any reason. Is this behavior of his permissible in the Shari'ah on a permanent basis? I ask you to give advice on good treatment and to remind us of the Sunnah of our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in his treatment of his wives.
The Shaykh:
Yes. The husband treats his wives with good conduct. Treat them with good conduct. Part of that is that he takes them out to the countryside and lets them relax their hearts, like other people, and does not confine them to the house all the time, always and forever. This is their right over him. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
With modesty and with keeping away from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). As for taking them to gatherings, rest houses, and mixed picnics, this is not permissible. But he may go to the countryside. And he does not expose them to fitnah. There is nothing wrong with that. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3106- 4717] هل من نصيحة للأزواج عن حسن المعاشرة والترويح عن زوجاتهم؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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