THE RIGHTS OF HUSBAND AND WIFE

6. The Rights of Husband and Wife ~ 121 ~ 6. THE RIGHTS OF HUSBAND AND WIFE THE QUR’AN states: “They (women) are your garments. And you (men) are their garments.”101 These words from the holy scriptures define how men and women relate to each other — like body and its garments. Without garments a body is meaningless, and without a body, garments are meaningless. The two must go together, for apart they have little reason to exist. This symbolizes the closeness of the two sexes in the material and spiritual senses. How beautiful a bird appears with its feathers, but if all the feathers are to be removed, it would be totally disfigured. The importance of the feather to the bird is similar to the importance of the garment to a man. A man without a garment is just like a bird without its feathers. This example of garments shows the great importance men and women have for each other, for, without each other, they are incomplete. They are the closest of companions — a relationship