Re: Ways to Keep your wife Happy
Salam Everybody,
I m not really sure if this is the right place to post this or not So I request to MOD please move it where it suppose to be Thanks, so I was searching sumthing online & found this really nice, thought I should share with you, You might have read that before. Let's follow this & Try our level best to improve our relationship who are Married,
So here you go
- Beautiful Reception
After returning from work, school, travel, or whatever has separated you:
* begin with a good greeting.
* Start with Assalamau 'Aliaykum and a smile. Salam is a sunnah and a
du'aa for her as well.
* Shake her hand and leave bad news for later!
- Sweet Speech and Enchanting Invitations
- Choose words that are positive and avoid negative ones.
- Give her your attention when you speak of she speaks.
- Speak with clarity and repeat words if necessary until she understands.
- Call her with the nice names that she likes, e.g. my sweet-heart, honey,
saaliha, etc.
3.Friendliness and Recreation
* Spend time talking together.
* Spread to her goods news.
* Remember your good memories together.
- Games and Distractions
- Joking around & having a sense of humor.
- Playing and competing with each other in sports or whatever.
- Taking her to watch permissible (halal) types of entertainment.
- Avoiding prohibited (haram) things in your choices of entertainment.
- Assistance in the Household
- Doing what you as an individual can/like to do that helps out,
especially if she is sick or tired.
- The most important thing is making it obvious that he appreciates her
hard work.
- Consultation (Shurah)
- Specifically in family matters.
- Giving her the feeling that her opinion is important to you.
- Studying her opinion carefully.
- Be willing to change an opinion for hers if it is better.
- Thanking her for helping him with her opinions.
Visiting Others
Choosing well raised people to build relations with. There is a great
reward in visiting relatives and pious people. (Not in wasting time while
visiting!)
Pay attention to ensure Islamic manners during visits.
Not forcing her to visit whom she does not feel comfortable with.
- Conduct During Travel
- Offer a warm farewell and good advice.
- Ask her to pray for him.
- Ask pious relatives and friends to take care of the family in your
absence.
- Give her enough money for what she might need.
- Try to stay in touch with her whether by phone, e-mail, letters,etc..
- Return as soon as possible.
- Bring her a gift!
- Avoid returning at an unexpected time or at night.
- Take her with you if possible.
- Financial Support
- The husband needs to be generous within his financial capabilities.He
should not be a miser with his money (nor wasteful).
- He gets rewards for all what he spends on her sustenance even for a
small piece of bread that he feeds her by his hand (hadeith).
- He is strongly encouraged to give to her before she asks him.
- Smelling Good and Physical Beautification
- Following the Sunnah in removing hair from the groin and underarms.
- Always being clean and neat.
- Put on perfume for her.
- Intercourse
- It is obligatory to do it habitually if you have no excuse
(sickness,etc.)
- Start with "Bismillah" and the authentic du'a.
- Enter into her in the proper place only (not the anus).
- Begin with foreplay including words of love.
- Continue until you have satisfied her desire.
- Relax and joke around afterwards.
- Avoid intercourse during the monthly period because it haram
- Do what you can to avoid damaging her level of Hiyaa (shyness and
modesty) such as taking your clothes together instead of asking her to do
it first while he is looking on.
- Avoid positions during intercourse that may harm her such as putting
pressure on her chest and blocking her breath, especially if you are heavy.
- Choose suitable times for intercourse and be considerate as sometimes
she maybe sick or exhausted.
- Guarding Privacy
- Avoid disclosing private information such as bedroom secrets, her
personal problems and other private matters.
- Aiding in the Obedience to Allah
- Wake her up in the last third of the night to pray "Qiam-ul-Layl" (extra
prayer done at night with long sujood and ruku'ua).
- Teach her what you know of the Qur'an and its tafseer.
- Teach her "Dhikr" (ways to remember Allah by the example of the prophet)
in the morning and evening.
- Encourage her to spend money for the sake of Allah such as in a charity
sale.
- Take her to Hajj and Umrah when you can afford to do so.
- Showing Respect for her Family and Friends
- Take her to visit her family and relatives, especially her parents.
- Invite them to visit her and welcome them.
- Give them presents on special occasions.
- Help them when needed with money, effort, etc..
- Keep good relations with her family after her death if she dies first.
Also in this case the husband is encouraged to follow the sunnah and keep
giving what she used to give in her life to her friends and family.
- (Islamic) Training & Admonition
This includes
* The basics of Islam
* Her duties and rights
* Reading and writing
* Encouraging her to attend lessons and halaqahs
* Islamic rules (ahkam) related to women
* Buying Islamic books and tapes for the home library
- Admirable Jealousy
- Ensure she is wearing proper hijab before leaving house.
- Restrict free mixing with non-mahram men.
- Avoiding excess jealousy. Examples of this are:
1- Analyzing every word and sentence she says and overloading her speech
by meanings that she did not mean
2- Preventing her from going out of the house when the reasons are just.
3- Preventing her from answering the phone.
4- etc.
- Patience and Mildness
- Problems are expected in every marriage so this is normal. What is
wrong is excessive responses and magnifying problems until a marital
breakdown.
- Anger should be shown when she exceeds the boundaries of Allah SWT,by
delaying prayers, backbiting, watching prohibited scenes on TV,etc..
- Forgive the mistakes she does to you (See item 18).
- How can you best correct her mistakes?
1- First, implicit and explicit advice several times.
2- Then by turning your back to her in bed (displaying your feelings).
Note that this does not include leaving the bedroom to another room,
leaving the house to another place, or not talking with her.
3- The last solution is lightly hitting (when allowable) her. In this
case, the hsuband should consider the following:
- He should know that sunnah is to avoid beating as the Prophet
PBUH never beat a woman or a servant.
- He should do it only in extreme cases of disobedience, e.g. refusing
intercourse without cause frequently, constantly not praying on time,
leaving the house for long periods of time without permission nor refusing
to tell him where she had been,
etc..
- It should not be done except after having turned from her bed and
discussing the matter with her as mentioned in Qur'an .
- He should not hit her hard injuring her, or hit her on her face or on
sensitive parts of her body.
- He should avoid shaming her such as by hitting her with a shoe, etc.
- Pardoning and Appropriate Censure
- Accounting her only for larger mistakes.
- Forgive mistakes done to him but account her for mistakes done in
Allah's rights, e.g. delaying prayers, etc..
- Remember all the good she does whenever she makes a mistake.
- Remember that all humans err so try to find excuses for her such as
maybe she is tired, sad, having her monthly cycle or that her commitment
to Islam is growing.
- Avoid attacking her for the bad cooking of the food as the Prophet PBUH
never blamed any of his wives for this. If he likes the food, he eats and
if he doesn't then he does not eat and does not comment.
- Before declaring her to be in error, try other indirect approaches that
are more subtle than direct accusations
- Escape from using insults and words that may hurt her feelings.
- When it becomes necessary to discuss a problem wait until you have
privacy from others.
- Waiting until the anger has subsided a bit can help to keep a control on
your words.
Good Luck
Ok, I agree with the principles behind most of these statements, provided they apply to both men and women. Why is this all about what the guy should teach/restrict/instruct the woman to do?
Beautiful Reception
Come home and greet the woman with a salam by all means but you're going to shake her hand?????? She's your wife! Give her a hug or a kiss, it will be much more appreciated. If my husband came home and shook my hand, I'd think he'd been out in the sun too long!
Sweet Speech and Enchanting invitations
"Speak with clarity and repeat words if necessary until she understands"????
Excuse me, she's your wife. Not mentally retarded or 5 years old. Treat her like she's an intelligent human being and that will be appreciated much more than being spoken to like she isnt capable of understanding a sentence first time around.
Aiding in obedience to Allah
All the suggestions are eminently admirable but why this presumption that the woman wont be contributing anything towards this goal? I know lots of women who actually wake their husbands and kids up for Fajr and teach their children how to read the Quran because their recitation is better. Lots of women do dhikr, read the Quran and give to charity voluntarily, some a lot more than their husbands. It works both ways, spouses are supposed to help each other improve their religion. There is no rule that just by virtue of being a guy you are automatically more religious than the woman!
Islamic Training & Admonition
HIS duties and rights
Im sorry to have to break this to you, but most women know how to read & write. And if in some parts of the world they dont, its likely that the men dont either.
Admirable jealousy
No double standards. If 'free mixing' with men means a woman shouln't be around them in school or university or at work, well why should you be allowed to do that?:) You dont want guys looking at her, she doesnt want women looking at you.
17 Patience and Mildness
Anger should be shown when HE misses prayers, puts on 'unsavory channels', stays out late for no reason and doesnt want to tell his wife where he's been etc etc.
Ok, like a lot of other people on this forum, I have an issue with what comes under the how to rectify an issue you have with her... is a wife allowed to follow this procedure too? First explain to her husband she doesnt like what he's doing, then turn her back to him in bed ( apparently this qualifies as reason enough to be hit by a 'toothbrush'), and then if all else fails, hit him with her toothbrush? Seriously, which man or woman do you know, who, if allowed to hit, would choose a toothbrush sized instrument to 'teach the lesson'?
Again, I think a lot of this article is great, wives would be very happy if their husbands treated them and their families with respect and patience and consideration but they would also appreciate it if you treated them as equally intelligent human beings and with love. And vice versa.
