Saad Tasleem – Can you explain to my spouse that these are my rights upon them!
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The speaker discusses the importance of having rights in Islam, including being able to request clarity on certain rights and enforce those. They stress that this is a problem that needs to be addressed, and that mercy and compassion should be the main drivers of behavior.
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Quite often I'm putting a situation where someone will approach me with their spouse and they'll say, can you explain to my spouse that these are my rights upon them? Look, it is good and important to know that in Islam, we have the following rights upon our spouse and they have the certain rights upon us. But rights should not have to be demanded if the only way someone is going to give their spouse their rights is when they're demanded and when they're enforced, there is a problem rights should be given freely. And not only that, we should want to go above and beyond the specific rights that are mentioned in Islam. That is because the spirit of our relationship with our spouse should
be mercy and compassion and everything should stem from that. So often, the bigger problem is that mercy and compassion has left the relationship