A married woman, 55 years old, worked in a clothing factory for 30 years to help her husband, a simple employee, and they have 6 married children. She bought land in installments and registered one feddan in her husband's name and one feddan in her name. She sold her share to build the house. The children changed after their marriage and started mistreating their parents. She asked her husband to register part of his share in her name as a guarantee for her future, but he refused, claiming that she wrote the land to him with her consent, and said that he prays and fasts to increase his good deeds because she will take from his good deeds on the Day of Judgment. She asks about her right not to forgive him and to demand her share, and about the Sharia ruling on his actions and hers.
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The wife owns her salary and her possessions, and it is not permissible for the husband to take anything from them except with her consent. All expenses are the sole responsibility of the husband, regardless of his wife's wealth. Financial cooperation between spouses enhances love and the continuation of married life. What the wife has gifted to her husband and he has taken possession of becomes his property. There should be understanding between the spouses in financial matters and good companionship, and each of them should consider the feelings of the other and not think of harming them.
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