The Wife's Obligation Toward Her Husband in Obedience
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Question:
The questioner asks: What is the wife's obligation toward her husband regarding obedience? And are her family more entitled to her obedience, or is it her husband? May Allah reward you with good. What? The questioner asks: What is the wife's obligation toward her husband regarding obedience, and are her family more entitled to her obedience, or is it her husband?
Answer:
And her answer is that obedience to her husband in what is right takes precedence over obedience to her family. She obeys him in what is customary between them, such as her clothing, what she dislikes, allowing him to have intercourse with her, sleeping with him in the bed, and not leaving without his permission, among other things.
Her obedience takes precedence, and she must continue in that obedience, except if he orders her to commit a sin. If he orders her to expose herself to her brothers, orders her to be alone with Zayd or 'Amr who are not her mahram, orders her to listen to foul songs, orders her to drink intoxicants, or orders her to be undutiful to her parents, she does not obey. There is no obedience to a creation in disobedience to the Creator. But in what is right and not forbidden, if he says to her, "Spread the bed," "Sleep with me," "Do such and such," "Be such and such," the customary thing that has no harm, she satisfies him and obeys him, except if she is from those who serve, in which case there is no harm in her demanding a servant if her like serves or is exempt from service. Yes.
The questioner asks: What is the wife's obligation toward her husband regarding obedience? And are her family more entitled to her obedience, or is it her husband? May Allah reward you with good. What? The questioner asks: What is the wife's obligation toward her husband regarding obedience, and are her family more entitled to her obedience, or is it her husband?
Answer:
And her answer is that obedience to her husband in what is right takes precedence over obedience to her family. She obeys him in what is customary between them, such as her clothing, what she dislikes, allowing him to have intercourse with her, sleeping with him in the bed, and not leaving without his permission, among other things.
Her obedience takes precedence, and she must continue in that obedience, except if he orders her to commit a sin. If he orders her to expose herself to her brothers, orders her to be alone with Zayd or 'Amr who are not her mahram, orders her to listen to foul songs, orders her to drink intoxicants, or orders her to be undutiful to her parents, she does not obey. There is no obedience to a creation in disobedience to the Creator. But in what is right and not forbidden, if he says to her, "Spread the bed," "Sleep with me," "Do such and such," "Be such and such," the customary thing that has no harm, she satisfies him and obeys him, except if she is from those who serve, in which case there is no harm in her demanding a servant if her like serves or is exempt from service. Yes.
Source
وجوب التعاون على البر والتقوى — islamhouse.com (1:18:13)
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