🕊️ Conflict & resolution · #61
My husband takes my salary and controls all the money, so I have none of my own. Is this allowed?
No. A wife's salary and property are her own, and taking them without her consent or stopping her from using her property is oppression.
Allah states that women have a share of what they earn (an-Nisa' 4:32) and forbids consuming others' wealth unjustly (4:29). Act 303 s.52(1)(h)(iv) lists disposing of a wife's property or preventing her from exercising her legal rights over it as a form of cruelty that can be a ground for fasakh. Extreme financial control also often comes together with emotional abuse. Steps: open an account in your own name that your husband cannot access; keep important documents safe; discuss it with the help of a mediator; and get advice from the religious office or a Syariah lawyer. If there are threats or violence, seek protection. See the question on a wife's salary.
Allah states that women have a share of what they earn (an-Nisa' 4:32) and forbids consuming others' wealth unjustly (4:29). Act 303 s.52(1)(h)(iv) lists disposing of a wife's property or preventing her from exercising her legal rights over it as a form of cruelty that can be a ground for fasakh. Extreme financial control also often comes together with emotional abuse. Steps: open an account in your own name that your husband cannot access; keep important documents safe; discuss it with the help of a mediator; and get advice from the religious office or a Syariah lawyer. If there are threats or violence, seek protection. See the question on a wife's salary.