Is a wife's intense love for her husband, reaching the point of excessive jealousy and constant preoccupation with him, considered shirk (associating partners with God) or taking a rival alongside God? And is this affliction due to being preoccupied with the love of the husband over the love of God after marriage?

A woman is not to be blamed for her love for her husband and her jealousy over him, as long as it does not exceed the normal and reasonable limit. The love between spouses, if it exceeds its natural limit, may become blameworthy if it weakens the love of Allah and His Messenger in the lover's heart. A wife's love for her husband is beneficial and helps in what Allah has legislated concerning marriage and chastity of the soul. The stronger the love between spouses, the more complete and perfect these objectives become.

There is no fault in a man loving his family and being devoted to them, unless this love distracts him from the love of Allah and His Messenger. Any love that competes with the love of Allah and His Messenger and weakens it is blameworthy, but if it aids in the love of Allah and His Messenger, it is praiseworthy. Beneficial love is of three types: love of Allah, love for the sake of Allah, and love for what helps in obeying Allah and avoiding His disobedience.

Loving other than Allah does not constitute shirk (definition) (polytheism) unless one makes his love for other than Allah like his love for Allah, with humility, submission, and complete veneration for that beloved. As for natural, permissible love, such as a woman's love for her husband, it is not considered polytheistic love. Shared love is of three types: natural (like the hungry person's love for food), mercy and compassion (like a parent's love for their child), and intimacy and familiarity (like friends' love for each other). These types do not constitute shirk. However, the special love that is exclusively for Allah is the love of servitude, which entails humility, submission, veneration, and perfect obedience. If it is directed towards other than Allah, it is shirk.

A wife's love for her husband and her jealousy over him are praiseworthy as long as it does not lead to her not hating his disobedience. Rather, she must hate his disobedience while maintaining love and advice. This love is praiseworthy because it brings happiness to married life and helps the spouses in matters of their religion and their worldly affairs. One should be wary of obsessive doubts and exaggerated, far-fetched estimations. Love should be a help in obeying Allah, in the righteousness of the home, and in the uprightness of life, and not a source of misery and excess that harms the heart, religion, and livelihood.