Advice from the Shaykh to spouses

Question : The sister on the line says: Honorable Shaykh, my husband is very hot-tempered and gets angry with me without reason. He curses and insults me more than is necessary. She says: Sometimes I feel some of this cursing directed at me. What is your guidance for this husband and this wife?

Answer : I say that it is obligatory for the two spouses to treat each other with kindness and good character, so that they may thereby attain reward and recompense, by the saying of Allah the Exalted: And so that their life may be happy, free of anything that spoils it. If one of them transgresses and wrongs the other, he bears the sin, and the other bears no sin. Rather, the other should be patient and seek reward from Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He. We ask Allah to reconcile the hearts of the believers and guide everyone, for He is capable of all things.