Heavenly Jewels

NAFQAA By Nafqaa is meant food, clothing and a home to stay. The Shariah has comprehensively explained in which cases Nafqaa becomes necessary on a person to give and how much. There are three factors that make Nafqaa waaj ib 1 . Zauj iyat (a marriage relationship) 2. Nasab (bloodand/amity ties) 3 . Mil i k (property) Here we discuss only fewMasaail regarding Zauj iyat and Nasab. Rule- Nafqaa of a female with whom Nikah-e-Sahih was made becomes waaj ib on the husband even if she is Naa-Baaligh. However a condition concerning a Naa-Baaligh female is that she has the strength for Wati or is Mushtahaat. There is no condition regarding the husband even ifhe is a minor. (Alamghiri. Durre-Mukhtaw) Rule- If a woman lives in her own home and property and she stops the husband from being there than she will not receive Nafqaa. Yes, if she says to the husband to take her to his home or give her a house with rent and he obliged then she becomes a recipicnt ofNafqaa. (A lamghiri) Rule- If the woman becomes sick at the husband' s home or she was at her parents home and went to his home sick, or she remained in her own home but did not refuse going to the husband' s home then Nafqaa becomes Waaj ib. S imilarly she becomes a recipient ofNafqaa i fshe was sick at her husbands home and then went to her parents home but is so sick that even with a carriage, she cannot come back to her husbands home. If she can come back but does not, then she is not entitled to Nafqaa. (Durre-Mukhtaaar) Rule- If a woman unjustly leaves her husbands home, she is not worthy ofNafqaa until she returns and ifshe returns to the husbands home while 2 1 5