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The Ruling on Eating Jointly Due to Living in a Joint Family System

Marital Problems,Rights of Spouses,The Ruling on Eating Jointly Due to Living in a Joint Family System

Fatwa No :
85816
| Date :
2025-09-02
معاشرت زندگی / ازدواجی مسائل / شوهر و بیوی کے حقوق

The Ruling on Eating Jointly Due to Living in a Joint Family System

Assalamu Alaikum. My name is Umme Hani. I have a question for you. I live in a joint family, and the food and drink here are very different from what we are used to in our own home. I try to eat while being grateful to Allah, but I am unable to eat it properly. At present, I am also pregnant, and I have a one-year-old daughter who is breastfed. Because I do not find the food suitable, I eat only a little and then leave it, as a result of which I have become very weak. My husband says that since we live together with everyone, the food will be prepared according to everyone’s preference, and that I should be patient and tolerate it. Kindly guide me in this matter.

الجوابُ حامِدا ًو مُصلیِّا ً

If a wife is not disobedient in the Shariʿah sense, then it is obligatory upon the husband, according to his means, to provide her with maintenance, i.e., food, drink, clothing, and residence. Therefore, if the questioner is compelled—due to her husband’s circumstances or financial capacity—to live in a joint family system, but during pregnancy the food prepared in the household does not suit her temperament and there is a genuine fear of harm to her health as a result, then the husband should also make arrangements, at least occasionally, to provide food and drink according to her needs, so that her health may be preserved and difficulties and distress do not arise in their married life.
At the same time, the questioner should also try—after having come to live in her husband’s home—to gradually accustom herself to the food and eating habits of her husband’s household, so that her condition does not become a cause of hardship and anxiety for her husband. Rather, both spouses should strive to ensure that their married life continues with harmony and peace.

مأخَذُ الفَتوی

كما في الدر المختار: وشرعا: (هي الطعام والكسوة والسكنى) وعرفا هي: الطعام (ونفقة الغير تجب على الغير بأسباب ثلاثة: زوجية، وقرابة، وملك) ... (فتجب للزوجة)... (على زوجها)... (بقدر حالهما) (3/572-573-574) وفي رد المحتار: وأما على المفتى به فتجب نفقة الوسط في المسألتين وهو فوق نفقة المعسرة ودون نفقة الموسرة. اهـ [تنبيه] صرحوا ببيان اليسار والإعسار في نفقة الأقارب ولم أر من عرفهما في نفقة الزوجة، ولعلهم وكلوا ذلك إلى العرف والنظر إلى الحال من التوسع في الإنفاق وعدمه، ويؤيده قول البدائع: حتى لو كان الرجل مفرطا في اليسار يأكل خبز الحوارى ولحم الدجاج والمرأة مفرطة في الفقر تأكل في بيت أهلها خبز الشعير يطعمها خبز الحنطة ولحم الشاة (3/575)
وفي الدر المختار: (وكذا تجب لها السكنى في بيت خال عن أهله) سوى طفله الذي لا يفهم الجماع وأمته وأم ولده (وأهلها) ولو ولدها من غيره (بقدر حالهما) كطعام وكسوة. وفي رد المحتار تحت: (قوله وكذا تجب لها) أي للزوجة السكنى أي الإسكان، وتقدم أن اسم النفقة يعمها؛ لكنه أفردها؛ لأن لها حكما يخصها نهر (قوله خال عن أهله إلخ) ؛ لأنها تتضرر بمشاركة غيرها فيه؛؛ لأنها لا تأمن على متاعها ويمنعها ذلك من المعاشرة مع زوجها ومن الاستمتاع إلا أن تختار ذلك؛ لأنها رضيت بانتقاص حقها هداية. (باب النفقة، ج: 3، ص: 599-600، ط: ايج ايم سعيد)
وفي الهندية: والنفقة الواجبة المأكول والملبوس والسكنى أما المأكول فالدقيق والماء والملح والحطب والدهن كذا في التتارخانية وكما يفرض لها قدر الكفاية من الطعام كذلك من الآدام كذا في فتح القدير (الباب السابع عشر في النفقات، ج: 1، ص: 549، ط: مكتبة ماجدية)
وفي السنن الكبرى للبيهقي: عن جابر بن عبد الله، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في قصة حجة الوداع قال: " ‌فاتقوا ‌الله ‌في ‌النساء ‌فإنكم أخذتموهن بأمانة الله واستحللتم فروجهن بكلمة الله " (باب الكلام الذي ينعقد به النكاح، ج: 7، ص: 234، الرقم: 13823)
وفي مرقاة المفاتيح: (ولهن عليكم رزقهن) من المأكول والمشروب وفي معناه سكناهن (وكسوتهن بالمعروف) باعتبار حالكم فقرا وغنى أو بالوجه المعروف من التوسط الممدوح. (قصة حجة الوداع، ج: 5، ص: 439، ط: مكتبة حقانية)

And Allah knows best
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