Marriage Is a Contract, Not a Religious Argument | Q&A with Nouman Ali Khan

Allah gave us a religion in which rights and responsibilities have been secured. Financial rights, financial responsibilities, family rights, family responsibilities, inheritance rights, inheritance responsibilities. There are some things that are non-negotiables in a marriage.

Everything else is subject. We need our scholars or our legal literature to spell out the micro details of how to live. That's not what the if you study the Quran, the Quran is giving us principles.

It's not giving us micro details on how to take every step. It's not. And it's almost like we feel that we're not capable of figuring this out ourselves.

Allah says specifically he teaches you what you could not have known yourselves. So the the parts of a marriage we couldn't figure out ourselves is the ones Allah taught us about. And that's why there's no exhaustive discourse in the Quran

about the rights of a husband and the rights of a wife and there's no exhaustive there's there's fundamentals. Figure the rest out yourself. You're adults for God's sake. This video was taken from one of our recent Ramadan

live Q&A sessions exclusively on Bayv. And during these sessions, Arman was answering questions submitted on our new revealed app, a Quran reading experience just like a must have except you can click on any ayah, get detailed commentary of the ayah from Mustad Norman and

ask him your questions right there. Visit revealed.beatv.com bayantv.com or find it on the App Store or Google Play. Men are maintainers over women on account of what Allah has favored some over others and on account of what

they spend from their monies. Then good women are subservient guarding the unseen, watchful of the unseen on account of what Allah has commanded to be guided to be guarded. And those whose rebellion or uprising you fear, then counsel

them, then leave them in the beds and strike them. Then if they were to obey you then don't pursue a means against them. Allah is all high great here when it said righteous women are obedient or devoutly obedient.

Whose obedience is it referring to? Is it referring to obedience to Allah and in some cases to her husband? How much right does a husband have in regards to this?

Can he command her to do cleaning and cooking, taking care of the kids and his parents, what she can eat or wear in the house or other places? Look, um, different people with different backgrounds and different cultural understandings and different readings into the religion is how I'll

say it. Unfiltered because this is unfiltered, right? Are going to give you a variety of answers on this question. In my own study of this religion, what I can

tell you is that marriage is a contract. uh and in a contract there are certain rights and expectations and I think some of the legal literature on marriage in our tradition the tradition um I don't agree with it.

I I don't find it convincing. I think that it was borrowing from social norms of the time and then saying that that's the Islamic definition even though the sacred text was not offering any such thing.

Um in the end all marriages is two people that are that is halal for them to be intimate with each other and the the man has taken full financial responsibility and for protection of and and you of course um you know that that criteria and has a degree

of authority. Now that degree of authority should is understood in different cultures in different ways. The degree of authority for a Canadian couple is not the same as the degree of authority for uh uh