🏡 Rights & responsibilities · #57
The wife works full time while the husband looks after the home and children. Is this arrangement allowed?
It is allowed if both agree and each one's rights are protected; yet the legal duty of maintenance remains the husband's, and the wife's contribution is her kindness, not a transfer of the obligation.
Allah describes men as maintainers because of what they spend from their wealth (an-Nisa' 4:34), and sets maintenance according to means (at-Talaq 65:7). If the husband cannot work or circumstances require it, the wife may spend her wealth willingly, and she earns the reward of kinship and charity (Sahih al-Bukhari 1466). A husband who cares for the children and home does noble work, as the Prophet ﷺ helped his family (Sahih al-Bukhari 676). Things to make clear: whether the wife's money is a gift or a loan, how jointly acquired property is treated, and how to protect both spouses' dignity from family remarks. See Family finances.
Allah describes men as maintainers because of what they spend from their wealth (an-Nisa' 4:34), and sets maintenance according to means (at-Talaq 65:7). If the husband cannot work or circumstances require it, the wife may spend her wealth willingly, and she earns the reward of kinship and charity (Sahih al-Bukhari 1466). A husband who cares for the children and home does noble work, as the Prophet ﷺ helped his family (Sahih al-Bukhari 676). Things to make clear: whether the wife's money is a gift or a loan, how jointly acquired property is treated, and how to protect both spouses' dignity from family remarks. See Family finances.
Sources
Surah an-Nisa' 4:34Sahih al-Bukhari 1466Sahih al-Bukhari 676