My wife does not listen to what I say. I am always working outside the house, from 5 PM until 1 AM. When I come home, I tell her to make the food and she makes it, but because she and I live in one room with my children, of whom we have two, when I sit at the computer or to watch television, she sits and yells because she wants to sleep. But when I am outside the house why doesn't she sleep and rest then?! Every day is like this. What should I do? Should I divorce her or what?.
Praise be to Allaah.
Firstly:
Both spouses should realise that the basis
of married life is mutual understanding and its pillars are love and
compassion. Hence their married life cannot be complete unless there is kind
treatment on both sides.Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“and live with them honourably”
[al-Nisa’ 4:19].
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen
(may Allaah have mercy on him) said:Each spouse must treat the other in a kind
and decent manner, because Allaah says(interpretation of the meaning):“and live with them honourably”
[al-Nisa’ 4:19]
“And they (women) have rights (over their
husbands as regards living expenses) similar (to those of their husbands)
over them (as regards obedience and respect) to what is reasonable”[al-Baqarah 2:228].
If the spouses treat one another in a kind
and decent manner, that will preserve love between them and make life more
pleasant. How often has separation occurred because of the lack of kind and
decent treatment. If each of them feared Allaah and treated the other in a
kind and decent manner, giving them their due rights, much good and blessing
would be achieved thereby. But if there are arguments between the spouses,
you find that most of them are caused by the lack of kind and decent
treatment; the husband beats his wife for the slightest thing, or she is
stubborn and argues with him about the slightest thing. Hence each spouse
must treat the other in a kind and decent manner, as Allaah has commanded.
End quote from al-Liqa’ al-Shahri.With regard to your situation, there is
something that should be pointed out, and we hope that you will agree to
that which is best for you and your children:1.
We think that it is
essential for you to give the children their own room, separate from yours
-- if possible -- and make your bedroom private.2.
Beware of spending
the night in anything that is not pleasing to Allaah. Your work involves
staying up at night, then when you come home and eat dinner, it will be more
or less the last third of the night, and it is not good for you to spend
this time watching TV or at the computer with things in which there is no
benefit or which are haraam. This time is for sleeping for the one who has
spent her night waiting for you and serving you. It is your wife's right to
spend this time sleeping, so that she can get up in the day to serve you and
to serve your children, and you do not have the right to disturb her or
spoil the quality of her sleep, because it is her right over you to be
treated in a kind and decent manner, and you are not doing that according to
what you have told us, whereas we see that she waits for you and prepares
dinner for you, and what you are criticising her for we do not see as
anything to be blamed; rather she is in the right.Just as the wife is required to pay
attention to her husband's work and appreciate the effort he is putting into
it, the husband should also take an interest in his wife's work in her house
and appreciate her serving him and taking care of the children. What the
wife does is much greater than what the husband does. If you are working
from 5 PM until one at night, your wife is working all around the clock.
Even in her sleep, she does not rest; if one of the children cries or needs
something, she is the one who gets up to take care of him and look after
him, not you. After that, is it appropriate for you to deprive her of her
fair share of sleep in which she can rest from the burdens of housework? How
can you expect her to sleep at a time other than her time for sleeping? If
you want her to stay at night with you, do you think that she can take care
of your house during the day? We think that you are spending the day
sleeping until noon, because of your work and staying up late. Is there any
housewife who can do that? Indeed, what you are demanding is not in
accordance with either sharee’ah or reason; what your wife is doing is in
accordance with both.3.
We advise the wife
to remember that it is essential to treat her husband kindly and not to
raise her voice or yell when asking for her rights. This is not befitting
for the wise Muslim woman to do.The scholars of the Standing Committee for
Issuing Fatwas said: What is prescribed is for the spouses to address one
another in a way that will create love and strength in the marital bonds,
and each of them should avoid raising the voice to one another or addressing
one another in ways that they dislike, because Allaah says (interpretation
of the meaning):“and live with them honourably”
[al-Nisa’
4:19].And she should not raise her voice to him,
because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “And they (women)
have rights (over their husbands as regards living expenses) similar (to
those of their husbands) over them (as regards obedience and respect) to
what is reasonable”[al-Baqarah 2:228].
But the husband should treat her in the way
that is better, so that the conflict will not be exacerbated.And Allaah is the source of strength; may
Allaah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and
companions. End quote.Finally:
We advise you to fear Allaah and to treat
your wife in a kind and decent manner. We also advise you to keep your wife
and to give her her rights of love and compassion.We ask Allaah to reconcile your hearts and
to set your affairs straight and to help you and your children.And Allaah knows best.
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