Woman in Islamic Shari‘ah
6. The Rights of Husband and Wife
~ 137 ~
Looking after a home is like looking after a state,
even if it is on a much smaller scale. It is certainly as
important and respectable a task as that carried out
by a head of state: a woman should, therefore,
engage herself in domestic affairs with the same
zeal and energy as a genuine head of state, devoting
her full potential to making her home an ideal one.
She should nurture and cherish it as a gardener
does his garden. As one of the
hadith
puts it: ‘The
woman is the guardian of her husband’s home and
she is accountable for it.’
119
Proficiency in domestic matters is woman’s greatest
ornament. A woman so equipped is the perfect
woman, one deserving of honor and success in the
life hereafter.
117. Qur’an, 33:33.
118. Ibn Kathir,
Tafsir,
3/483.
THE BEST WOMAN
The Prophet Muhammad was once asked who of all
women was the best. He replied, “One who makes
her husband happy when he sees her, who obeys
