Re: duties/responsibilities of husband and wife in Islam
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What is normally given as gift to the wife cannot be reclaimed by the husband in any form … Not even as a loan repayment, unless it is done out of the wealth given to her in mahr and she decided to end the marriage for he own reasons, she needs to repay the mahr back … So if she studied on it then she should pay that back. Or if there was an agreement earlier that she would pay that back and a contract is in place. Otherwise giving ones wife a gift … Is a gift … They upon receiving the gift have full rights over it. It can get grey in the matter of divorce where a man can argue the position that the gift was given to symbolise the marriage and as the marriage no longer is in tact he wishes to get his money for it or for it to be returned to him … But that needs to be decided by the judge at the time.
If the wife insists for some reason to repay her husband there is no stopping her, but her act will be counted in as a gift and not as a debt being cleared. Husband spending on his wife is his duty and cannot be considered a favour to her that she is in debt to in the material sense. She is his … to care for … Often men pay more than they need to to their wives … And they get a reward for meeting their duty and an extra reward for being charitable too.