Don't Move Into Her House

 

Don't Move Into Her House

As-Saffarini (may God have mercy on him) said

Any man who lives under the financial support of his wife is stripped of goodness, for he has overturned the natural order upon which Allah created people namely, that men are maintainers of women and that men have a degree over them.

But in this case, she has become the maintainer over him, holding the advantage of spending on him and bestowing favour upon him. Accordingly, he returns to her in humiliation, for he is in need of what she possesses; and whoever is in need of something will inevitably be humbled before the one who holds that need. This is a condition befitting a wife, not a man. Yet this man has been deprived of goodness and the qualities of manliness. He has accepted humiliation and lowness, and has grown accustomed to comfort and ease until he has become dependent on them.

Whoever reaches such a state whose condition has declined to this level - there is no good in his life. Ruin be upon him and upon his pleasures.

As-Saffarini, Ghidha' al-Albab fi Sharh Manzümat al-Adab. Vol. 2, p. 394, - Salah

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