The fact is that as you have yourself explained, you didn’t ask this question for an answer. You already knew the answer. So that thing has been aired and trashed, and everybody knows that anybody who indulges in such behavior is wrong. And this should not be encouraged at all in Ahmadi men. As you have mentioned rightly, in our family, most often than not, the property of the husband and the property of the wife are just like one. There is no difference what so ever. And nobody keeps count of who is taking money from whom, and how much to give and how much not to give.
Practically, when the wife needs something, the whole property of the husband belongs to her. And if she also has a property at the time of need, she offers it to the husband. And this is in fact the sunnat of Huzoor-e-Akram’s first wife, Hazrat Khadija. When she got married to Huzoor, she offered her entire property to Huzoor. So he also behaved like that to her and to the following wives, because it is never mentioned in any tradition that he kept anything for himself alone, as apart from the money he distributed to the wives. Although it was a very meager living, and Huzoor-e-Akram lived very meagerly along with his wives, but the point which I am making is this, that he never kept money to himself and gave little to the wives.
That situation never arose. Whatever he had, that is obvious that he gave it to the poor and others, but never kept things from his wives. So that sunnat is from both sides, from the wives’ side as well as from the side of Huzoor-e-Akram. And this is the ideal home. No better home can be conceived in any country, in any situation, than this home, the style of which we learn from our Huzoor-e-Akram.
