From the nikah to motherhood
Marriage and family guides for Muslim women
Your rights, your choices and where to turn, at every stage of married and family life.
Marriage and family guides for Muslim women
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Marriage in Islam
Its purpose, your consent, the nikah and your rights. -
Marriage problems
Mending a marriage, mediators, and staying safe. -
Mahr
The bride’s gift: hers alone, prompt or deferred. -
Pregnancy
Fasting, prayer, nifas and duas for the baby. -
Khula
How a wife can end a marriage, step by step. -
Iddah
The waiting period after divorce or widowhood.
Love and mercy
What a marriage is meant to be. Allah made spouses from among ourselves so that we find tranquillity in them, and placed love and mercy between them (Quran 30:21). The Quran calls husband and wife garments for one another (Quran 2:187): close, covering and protecting.
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وَمِنۡ ءَايَٰتِهِۦٓ أَنۡ خَلَقَ لَكُم مِّنۡ أَنفُسِكُمۡ أَزۡوَٰجٗا لِّتَسۡكُنُوٓاْ إِلَيۡهَا وَجَعَلَ بَيۡنَكُم مَّوَدَّةٗ وَرَحۡمَةًۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَٰتٖ لِّقَوۡمٖ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ ٢١
wamin āyātihi an khalaqa lakum min anfusikum azwājan litaskunū ilayhā wajaʿala baynakum mawaddatan waraḥmatan inna fī dhālika laāyātin liqawmin yatafakkarūna
And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.
Your own wealth, in marriage too
What you earn is yours. For women is a share of what they have earned (Quran 4:32), and the mahr is the wife’s alone (Quran 4:4). A wife’s savings, salary and gold stay hers in marriage, and so does their zakat: see our zakat guides.