Topic: Supporting Dependents, Including One's Wife.

[True Muslima]

Supporting Dependents, Including One's Wife.

The one who is solvent is obligated to support his poor parents and grandparents even if they were able to earn their living. He is also obligated to support his descendants, i.e., his children and grandchildren who are poor and cannot earn their living or who are non-pubescent or who are unable to earn their living because of some ailment.

The husband is obligated to support his wife and pay her marriage payment (mahr). If he divorces his wife without a reason from her, he must give her a gift (mut^ah).

The owner of slaves and animals must support them, must not charge them with more work than they can bear, and must not beat them unjustly.