Is it permissible for a woman to take from her husband’s money because he took her gold and sold it?
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The questioner : Shaykh, this sister asking with us says: A woman gave her husband gold worth five thousand riyals, and the husband sold the gold and spent it on his needs. So she asked her husband to return what he had taken, but he refused. So she took from his money without his knowledge, the amount he had taken from her?
The Shaykh : Yes, it is not permissible for her to take anything from his money, even if it is the amount he took from her, becauseMishkat al-Masabih 2934, but the husband is required to return what he took from her, and it is not permissible for him to refuse to pay it. Rather, the more he delays in paying it, the more he is a wrongdoer, due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family): “The delay of the wealthy is injustice.” Let him know that even if in this world he has control over her, and he is able to refuse or threaten her with divorce if she demands it, in the Hereafter it will not be so. And she will take from his good deeds. If any of her injustice remains and his good deeds are exhausted, he will take from her bad deeds and place them on him. So let him fear Allah and the command of his Lord. And what this woman mentioned about her husband also exists with many women’s husbands.
So they should fear Allah. They should know that there is no hand except that the hand of Allah is above it. That they should fulfill the rights of women.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Fear Allah regarding women.”Sahih Muslim 1218a.
The questioner : Shaykh, she says: Of course, she took the amount the husband took. Does the wife return what she took from the husband, Shaykh?
The Shaykh : She returns it to the husband, and he takes it from his good deeds on the Day of Resurrection.
The presenter : May Allah reward you with good. And good deeds on the Day of Resurrection are more valuable than dirhams in this world. Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, may Allah reward you with good, O
The Shaykh : Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes, it is not permissible for her to take anything from his money, even if it is the amount he took from her, because
the Prophet as saying, “Place trust in him who trusts you, but do not cheat him who cheats you.”
النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال أد الأمانة إلى من ائتمنك ولا تخن من خانكSo they should fear Allah. They should know that there is no hand except that the hand of Allah is above it. That they should fulfill the rights of women.
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Fear Allah regarding women.”
Verily you have taken them on the security of Allah, and intercourse with them has been made lawful unto you by words of Allah.
فإنكم أخذتموهن بأمان الله واستحللتم فروجهن بكلمة اللهThe questioner : Shaykh, she says: Of course, she took the amount the husband took. Does the wife return what she took from the husband, Shaykh?
The Shaykh : She returns it to the husband, and he takes it from his good deeds on the Day of Resurrection.
The presenter : May Allah reward you with good. And good deeds on the Day of Resurrection are more valuable than dirhams in this world. Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, may Allah reward you with good, O
The Shaykh : Shaykh.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 1847-- هل يجوز للمرأة ان تأخذ من مال زوجها لانه أخذ ذهبها وباعه /سؤال على الهاتف 📞 /ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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