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heart, and a believing righteous wife assisting him in winning the hereafter." 93
Further many traditions are there concerning the selection of wife, recommending to take into consideration qualities like good morals, faith, and commitment, and warning against getting married to disbelievers and winebibers and alike: All this indicates the fact that the habits and traits of the husband and wife have effect on each other and do play a role in moral development or degeneration of each other.
The holy Quran considers getting married to a believing bondswoman to be preferable to marry a polytheist free woman.
"... A believing bondswoman is definitely better than an idolater "free" woman..." "2:221"
Partnership in Material life
The wife and husband should help and sustain each other in arranging and ordering worldly life, the fact on which strong emphasis is there in many religious sources, as in the following hadeeth:
AlImaam AsSaadiq"A" said:
"Three things bring comfort to the believer: a spacious house disguising his defects and shameful deed out of people, and a virtuous wife that helps and supports him in "managing" the affairs of world and hereafter." 94
Upbringing of Offspring
It is worthmentioning that one of important purposes of marriage, which has a high degree coming after procreation of the same kind and permanence of species in order, being
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93. Al-Kaafi, vol. V, p. 329.
94. Al-Mahajjah Al-Bayzaa, vol. III, quoted from Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadeeth 1856.
