Explanation of the Hadith: “Treat women with kindness”
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, he also asks about the hadith: “Treat women with kindness.”
Answer:
Yes, meaning treat women with kindness. They may commit wrong against their husbands or their relatives, so one should treat them with gentleness, forbearance, and tolerance. Also, “Treat women with kindness” means to protect them and guard them from running away and going astray. This is the most important point: the guardians of women should protect them from going astray, protect them from being lost, and take care of them, as the Exalted said:[An-Nisa 4:34]. Yes.
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, he also asks about the hadith: “Treat women with kindness.”
Answer:
Yes, meaning treat women with kindness. They may commit wrong against their husbands or their relatives, so one should treat them with gentleness, forbearance, and tolerance. Also, “Treat women with kindness” means to protect them and guard them from running away and going astray. This is the most important point: the guardians of women should protect them from going astray, protect them from being lost, and take care of them, as the Exalted said:
Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth.
الرِّجَالُ قَوَّامُونَ عَلَى النِّسَاءِ بِمَا فَضَّلَ اللَّهُ بَعْضَهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ وَبِمَا أَنفَقُوا مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/100 — archive.org (11:38)
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