MEASURING SHORT WHEN SELLING SOMETHING - Part 14
There is only one financial right which a husband owes his wife, which is Mehr, and many husbands do not pay even that one right to their wives. They do not pay it their entire lives. Then when the time to die comes and they are on their death bed, they plead to their wives to forgive them the Mehr. What can the poor wife say at that time when her husband is on death bed, that I do not forgive it? So she is forced to forgive it whether she wants to or not. What many people do not realise is that in financial transactions such forgiveness is not valid in Shariah unless it is given with happiness of the heart (Teeb-e-Khatir).
Similarly, in terms of giving spending allowance to wife Shariah states that it should be sufficient for the wife to live comfortably on it. If the husband is too miserly about it this will also come under Tatfeef (measuring short and weighing less).
In nutshell, if a person owes a financial right to someone else, they must try to pay it fully. Otherwise it will be counted as Tatfeef and the person will be deserving of the divine punishment that Allah Ta'alah has promised in this verse (translation given in Part 1).
Continued...
Adapted from the talk "Milawat aur Naap Taul mein Kami", by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani DB
There is only one financial right which a husband owes his wife, which is Mehr, and many husbands do not pay even that one right to their wives. They do not pay it their entire lives. Then when the time to die comes and they are on their death bed, they plead to their wives to forgive them the Mehr. What can the poor wife say at that time when her husband is on death bed, that I do not forgive it? So she is forced to forgive it whether she wants to or not. What many people do not realise is that in financial transactions such forgiveness is not valid in Shariah unless it is given with happiness of the heart (Teeb-e-Khatir).
Similarly, in terms of giving spending allowance to wife Shariah states that it should be sufficient for the wife to live comfortably on it. If the husband is too miserly about it this will also come under Tatfeef (measuring short and weighing less).
In nutshell, if a person owes a financial right to someone else, they must try to pay it fully. Otherwise it will be counted as Tatfeef and the person will be deserving of the divine punishment that Allah Ta'alah has promised in this verse (translation given in Part 1).
Continued...
Adapted from the talk "Milawat aur Naap Taul mein Kami", by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani DB
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