Quote#Happiness
"A Muslim cannot obtain anything better than an amiable and beautiful…
Quote byThomas Patrick Hughes · 1838–1911
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Islam, Entry Wifes, Muhammad's teaching on wives, as given in the Traditions. Quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam..
English (original)
"A Muslim cannot obtain anything better than an amiable and beautiful wife, such a wife who, when ordered by her husband to do a thing, will obey, and if her husband looks at her will be happy; and if her husband swears by her, she will make him a swearer of truth; and if ha be absent from her, she will honour him with her own person and property."
— Thomas Patrick Hughes
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