Financial Maintenance in Polygyny (another perspective)

Shaykh Fatḥ Al-Qadasi ḥafidhahullāh: ▪️First, these matters should be handled between the husband and the wife with ease, gentleness, generosity, and forbearance. They should not be dealt with through a harsh or rigid system. Rather, they should be conducted in a manner governed by understanding and mutual tolerance. Yes, if there is any surplus or extra, it may be given from it, and if there is any shortfall, then he (the husband) should make it up. Thus, there should not be strictness, constant accounting, or meticulous disputation between the spouses over these matters. This is the first point. And we should remember the statement of Allāh, the Mighty and Exalted: “And whatsoever you spend of anything (in Allāh's Cause), He will replace it. And He is the Best of providers." [Saba:39] And as mentioned in the hadith: "There is no day that the servants of Allāh begin the morning except that two angels descend. One of them says: “'O Allāh! Compensate every person who spends in Your Cause,' and the other (angel) says, 'O Allāh! Destroy every miser.'" [Al-Bukhari 1442] ▪️Secondly, If we turn to the Islamic ruling on this matter, then the money is the husband’s money the money is the husband’s. The woman is a trustee over her husband’s wealth, so she spends it in a reasonable manner when he specifies it and says to her, “This is for such-and-such and such-and-such." She is therefore a trustee over this money and spends it appropriately on these specified matters. It does not become her property merely by reaching her hand, so long as the husband has designated it for specific purposes and so long as he requires that any surplus be returned to him. Thus, the woman is a trustee who spends on herself, her children, her home, and her family in a reasonable manner, and she informs him of any surplus if anything remains. Yes, because the Prophet ﷺ said that a woman is a trustee in her husband’s house and is responsible in her husband’s house for his wealth and his children. [Al-Bukhari 5200] She is therefore like an agent: she spends in a reasonable manner, and whatever remains she informs her husband about, and she does not take from it except what he has permitted her to take. And Allāh knows best. Source: https://t.me/EngFatawaboxes_9_9_9_Bot