The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No. 2062- A woman with whom permanent marriage is contracted, should not as an obligatory precaution, go out of the house without the permission of her husband, or to choose a job outside the house (whether it is a verbal permission or it is clear from the contexts that he consents to it), and she should not prevent him from having sexual intercourse with her without a religiously valid excuse. It is also obligatory upon the husband to provide her with food, clothes and housing and other essential things as usual, and also medical expenses, medicines, etc., and if he does not provide the foresaid accommodations and provisions, regardless of whether he is able to provide them or not, he remains, indebted to the wife.

Issue No. 2062- A woman with whom permanent marriage is contracted, should not as an obligatory precaution, go out of the house without the permission of her husband, or to choose a job outside the house (whether it is a verbal permission or it is clear from the contexts that he consents to it), and she should not prevent him from having sexual intercourse with her without a religiously valid excuse. It is also obligatory upon the husband to provide her with food, clothes and housing and other essential things as usual, and also medical expenses, medicines, etc., and if he does not provide the foresaid accommodations and provisions, regardless of whether he is able to provide them or not, he remains, indebted to the wife.

Issue No. 2064- A wife is not bound to provide household services, to cook, clean or wash, etc. unless she does so on her own willingness; if the husband compels her to do so, the wife may claim wages in return.

Issue No. 2065- If the wife asks the husband for maintenance and he does not provide her, she can draw her daily expenses from his property every day without his permission, and the obligatory precaution is that she should do so with the permission of the Mujtahid. In case however, she has no choice but to earn her livelihood, it will not be obligatory upon her to obey her husband while she is engaged in earning her livelihood.

Issue No. 2066- A man has no right to abandon his permanent wife in a way that she can neither be regarded as a woman with a husband, nor as a woman without a husband, however, it is not obligatory that out of every four nights a man should spend one night with his permanent wife. However in case he has more than one wife, justice should be observed among them with regard to staying over at their homes, details of which can be found in detailed books of jurisprudence.

Issue No. 2067- A man cannot abandon having sexual intercourse with his permanent wife for more than four months, rather, if the wife is young, and there is this fear that during this period she might fall into sin, the obligatory precaution is that he must act in a way that she does not fall into sins.

Issue No. 2068- It is not obligatory to fix a sum of mahr in permanent marriage, and the marriage contract without it is in order. However, if the husband has sexual intercourse with the wife later, he should pay her mahr in accordance with the mahr usually paid to women of her status.

Issue No. 2069- If at the time of reciting the marriage formula for a permanent marriage no time is fixed for the payment of mahr, the wife may demand her mahr immediately; she can even prevent her husband from sexual intercourse before receiving the mahr, whether the husband is capable to pay it or not, unless his not being able to pay the mahr at the time of recitation of formula indicates that the mahr had been a non-immediate debt on him from the beginning, and not an immediate debt.

Issue No. 2070- In temporary marriage, the duration of the contract and the amount of mahr should be specified, and without specifying these two, the marriage will be void.

Issue No. 2071- Contracting a temporary marriage with a woman is permissible, even if it may not be for the sake of any sexual pleasure. Rather, if it is intended to make her of one’s maḥrams, there would be no problem in it, provided that the girl who is contracted for temporary marriage is of an age that sexual pleasure can be derived from her. For example, if she is a child, the duration of the temporary marriage should be enough to include the period in which she is ready for sexual enjoyment, though he may exempt her in future of the remaining time.

Issue No. 2072- The obligatory precaution is that a husband should not refrain from having sexual intercourse for more than four months with the woman with whom he has contracted temporary marriage.

Issue No. 2073- The woman in temporary marriage may make a condition that her husband will not have sexual intercourse with her, though other enjoyments would be of no problem. However, if she agrees to sexual intercourse later, the husband may have sexual intercourse with her.