Husbands earnings

[Unregis]

Assalaamualaik

I would like to know whether a wife is entitled to know how much the husband earns?
Can the wife demand a document of the husbands salary?

according to the shariah i was told that the wife does not need to know.

then again some people with no proof of shariah says that the wife is entitled to know.

please provide proof

Shukran

[Fitnah Bolice]

for what reason do you wish to know how much your husband earns? Is it not enough that he provides for your needs?

[.: Anna :.]

wa alaykum salam

sis if he is providing for you properly why do you need to know the exact amount?
if he is neglecting his duty to provide then u need to deal with that problem.
i dnt know the definite shariah position, there maybe dif views about it. i think its imam ghazali who advised that she doesnt need to know the exact amount, bc if it is little she may look down about that and respect him and less and if its alot she may keep asking for alot of things?
if he is providing for you, i would stop stressing about knowing the exact amount. what benefit will the info give u? if he wants to deal with all finance by himself then let him do it and save urself the stress?

[xyz]

I'd demand to want to know wat my hubby earns, regardless of wether he provides for me as he shud do. To me his not saying brings into question the issue of trust

[Umm_Hanzalah]

If a husband/wife relationship is supposed to be close then why would he need to hide it (a bit weird I think, but it might be something to do with personality)? Though there is nothing to say that he has to if he is providing for your needs.

[afsalim]

The question is, why would spouses hide things from each other? I personally wouldn't.

[the path two]

ONE could say..if you have a right to know his precise earnings then he should also know precisely how you spend it too..EXACTLY

marriage is about trust and a reasonable amount of free space too

if the household needs are not met then you should enquire and he should be honest..as i know of a drug addict whose wife leaves him sometimes when things get too much..and the money goes elsewhere

he promises to change..and she comes back..till the next tiff

marriage ..a great challenge..with great rewards..for society too

[~Warda~]

U dont REALLy need to know...but i guess in any normal relationship, you'd know how much ur hubby earned? Or alteast not the EXACT amount...but aproximately? And why would a husband go out of his way and HIDE it from his wife? :scratch:

[Unregis]

jazakallah for your responses.

im a brother by the way.

im not hiding anything from my wife.
its like one of the sisters said its such that i do not want to stress her out of money issues, as i am the husband who should be providing everything.

it cant be an issue of trust as well, what does money/earnings have to do anything with trust if i do see to all the necessaties! u cannot demand u want to know how much the husband earns same as the husband cannot demand to know how much his wife has in the bank or if she works how much she earns, so how can a wife DEMAND to know.

i do love my wife with much love and respect but there are boundaries for everything.
its such that she even wants to know when and how much i give to my parents!!! is there any righteousness in that, DEMANDING to know all that, when not even i pry into what ever she should be giving with love to her parents.

anyways i have written a previous reply but it did not go thru i suppose, so much was left out.

jazakallah once again

[Unregisterednow]

From a purely practical point of view I think these days (esp in the West) it is important for the wife to have some idea of husband's earnings, how the bills are paid, when they are due etc., maybe not the exact amounts but she should def. have some knowledge imo. I have heard of husbands passing away or ill in hospital and the wife literally has no idea of how to handle household accounts and so on and she ends up in a mess (this also happened to one of my aunties who is in her 30s and lost her husband to Cancer). This isn't Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia where women have their extended families helping them out. Imagine husband is in hospital and she has to suddenly pay phone bill, gas bill, kids school fees etc.

Anyway, if husband and wife have a joint account (which I would hope they have) wouldn't it be a bit ridiculous (and maybe impossible??) for the wife to not know how much money is coming in and going out of it?? A marriage is a partnership imo, seems bizarre to keep one half 'in the dark' regarding finances esp in these days of joint mortgages, joint credit cards and joint bank accounts and thousands of pounds being spent each month (yes I know the first two are haraam but being honest I'm guessing the majority of Muslim households do have them, and besides even if they don't have mortgages there are still rent payments to be made)....