420.Act kindly towards women, for they were created from a rib and the most crooked part of the rib is its top. If you attempt to straighten it you will break it, if you leave it alone it will remain crooked: so act kindly towards women.
(Bukhari, Muslim).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
421.Paradise lies under the feet of the mother.
(Nasai).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
422.Advice and warning rendered by Hazrat Umar, the second caliph: "Beware! don't make a heavy dower of women. Had it been a cause of honour in the world and piety near Allah, the Holy Prophet would have been the first about it. I did not know whether the Holy Prophet married any of his wives and got his daughters married for more than 12 auqiahs (NOTE 38)"
(Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Abu Daud, Nasai, Ibn Majah).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

THE TRUE QUALITY OF A GOOD WIFE

423.Thauban reported that the Messenger of Allah said: "The best of the property is a remembering tongue (about Allah), and a grateful heart and a believing wife who helps him in his faith."
(Ahmad, Ibn Majah).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
424.Hazrat Aishah (R.A.) (NOTE 39) told that Allah's Messenger said to her, "If you wish to join me (in the Hereafter), be satisfied with worldly things to the extent of a rider's provision, avoid sitting with the rich, and do not consider a garment worn out till you patch it."
(Tirmidhi).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
425.Hadrat Anas reported that the Holy Prophet had said: "For the woman her husband is Paradise as well as Hell."
(Ahmad, Nasai).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
426.Imran bin Hussain reported Allah's Messenger as saying, "The perfume used by men should have an odour, but no colour, and the perfume used by women should have colour but no odour."
(Abu Daud).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

427.Abu Musa reported Allah's Messenger as saying, "Every eye is adulterous (when it cast glances with lust on strange women) and when a woman perfumes herself and passes a company, she is such and such." -meaning adulterous.
(Tirmidhi).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
428.Hadrat Aisha reports that she asked the Holy Prophet whose right was greatest on the woman and the Holy Prophet said: Husband's. Then she asked: Whose right was the greatest on man and the Holy Prophet said: His mother's.
(Bazaz, Hakim).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
429.Hadrat Ibn Umar reported that the Holy Prophet had said: "Allah would not like even to look at the woman who is not thankful to her husband."
(Nasai).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
430.Hazrat Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that the Messenger Of Allah said: " When a wife spends food of her house without spoiling there is for her its reward for what she gives away and there is also a reward for her husband for what he earns, and the like (reward) for the storekeeper - none of them diminishing aught from the reward of another."
(Bukhari).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
431.A hadith related by Hadrat Anas says that the Holy Prophet observed: "When the following five evils shall creep into my Ummah, it will then be destroyed:
(i) invoking curses on one another (ii) use of liquor on large scale (iii) wearing of silken clothes (iv)increased number of dancing girls and their frequent entertainment shows in large gatherings. (v)when man shall engage in sexual intercourse with males and women shall engage in sexual acts with other females i.e. sodomy and homosexuality."
(Baihaqi).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).


HOW ESSENTIAL IS HIJAB (VEIL)


432.Ibn Masud reported the Messenger of Allah as saying: "A woman is an object of concealment for when she goes out the devil presents her in alluring looks before men."
(Tirmidhi).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
433.There are three types of eyes whom hell fire will not touch - the eye which keeps itself shut from the things forbidden by Allah, the eye which guards the frontiers of Islam and remains open to keep vigil over it and the eye which constantly sheds tears out of Allah's fear.
(Tirmidhi).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
434.The fornication of the eyes consists of looking, of ears in hearing, of the tongue in speech, of the hand in violence and of the foot in walking. The heart lusts and wishes and the private parts accord with that or reject it.
(Muslim).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

WEALTH AND WOMEN ARE A GREAT TRIAL

435.Abu Huraira reported that the Messenger of Allah said: "Wealth is not in vast riches but wealth is in self-contentment."
(Bukhari, Muslim).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
436.Two hungry wolves do not do so much havoc to a flock of sheep as greed and desire do to one's religion.
(Tirmidhi).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
437.Abu Umama reported that the Prophet as saying, "The most enviable of my friends in my estimation is a believer with little property who finds pleasure in prayer, who performs the worship of his Lord well, who obeys Him in secret, who is obscure among men, who is not pointed out by people, and whose provision is bare sufficiency with which he is content." He then snapped his fingers and said, "His death will come speedily, the women who bewail him will be few and what he leaves will be little."
(Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
438.Umar reported the Prophet saying, "Whenever a man is alone with a woman the devil makes a third."
(Tirmidhi).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
439.Do not call on women in the absence of their husbands, because Satan might be circulating in any one of you like blood.
(Tirmidhi).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
440.Abu Said a-Khudri reported Allah's Messenger as saying, "the world is sweet and verdant, and Allah having put you in it in your turn watches how you act; so fear the world and fear women, for the trial of the Bani Israel had to do with woman."
(Muslim).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).


HUSBAND-WIFE SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP

441.Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said: "If anyone amongst you intends to go to his wife he should say: In the name of Allah, O Allah, ward us against Satan and keep away the Satan from the one that you have bestowed upon us, and if He has ordained a male child for them, Satan will never be able to harm him."
(Bukhari, Muslim).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
442.Abu Said a-Khudri reported Allah's Messenger as saying, "The most important of the trusts in the sight of Allah in the Day of Judgement is that a man goes to his wife and she goes to him (and the breach of trust is) that he should divulge her secret."
(Muslim).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
443.Abu Dharr reported that the Messenger of Allah told his companions that "...in man's sexual intercourse (with his wife) there is Sadqa (charity)." They (the companions) said: Messenger of Allah, is there a reward for him who satisfied his sexual passion among us? He said: Tell me, if he were to devote it to something forbidden, would it not be a sin on his part? Similarly, if he were to devote it to something lawful, he should have a reward."
(Muslim).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).

444.Hazrat Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) said: "I never looked at (or, I never saw) Allah's Messenger's private parts."
(Ibn Majah).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
445.Ibn Abbas reported: "It was revealed to the Messenger of Allah: your wives are a tilth for you. So come to your tilth as you like; come from the front and back, and guard against the rectum and menstruation."
(Ibn Majah, Tirmidhi).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).


Regards,
Sardarzada

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