crooked part of the rib is its top. If you attempt to straighten it you will
break it, if you leave it alone it will remain crooked: so act kindly towards
women.
(Bukhari, Muslim).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
421.Paradise lies under the feet of the mother.
(Nasai).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
422.Advice and warning rendered by Hazrat Umar, the second caliph: "Beware!
don't make a heavy dower of women. Had it been a cause of honour in the world
and piety near Allah, the Holy Prophet would have been the first about it. I did
not know whether the Holy Prophet married any of his wives and got his daughters
married for more than 12 auqiahs (NOTE 38)"
(Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Abu Daud, Nasai, Ibn Majah).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
THE TRUE QUALITY OF A GOOD WIFE
423.Thauban reported that the Messenger of Allah said: "The best of the property
is a remembering tongue (about Allah), and a grateful heart and a believing wife
who helps him in his faith."
(Ahmad, Ibn Majah).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
424.Hazrat Aishah (R.A.) (NOTE 39) told that Allah's Messenger said to her, "If
you wish to join me (in the Hereafter), be satisfied with worldly things to the
extent of a rider's provision, avoid sitting with the rich, and do not consider
a garment worn out till you patch it."
(Tirmidhi).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
425.Hadrat Anas reported that the Holy Prophet had said: "For the woman her
husband is Paradise as well as Hell."
(Ahmad, Nasai).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
426.Imran bin Hussain reported Allah's Messenger as saying, "The perfume used by
men should have an odour, but no colour, and the perfume used by women should
have colour but no odour."
(Abu Daud).
(Ideal Woman in Islam. by Imran Muhammad).
427.Abu Musa reported Allah's Messenger as saying, "Every eye is adulterous
