Assist each other in the home | Mufti Menk

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The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam helped in the home. Yes, indeed. With what? He helped with the cooking and the cleaning. Not every day, but a lot of the time. So if you take a careful study of that time, there was nothing hard and fast as to who must cook. It became a cultural matter later. And yes, indeed, there are people who would fulfill the roles. People say, "Well, you know, you gotta bring the food." I'll bring the food, but you gotta help me cook it, you know? You can ask your spouse, and it's, it's a bonus. Uh, you know, the happiest homes are the homes where the spouses know their roles, but assist each other a little bit in your role. I'll do the, the... I'll go out and work whole day, so I'm gonna be really, really tired, and so on. I'll expect you to do a little bit while you're at home. Either way, may Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala grant us ease. And sometimes if both are away, maybe we might be able to collectively afford something that, uh, perhaps would help us eat. Maybe someone who can cook for us, then we can pay them. Or perhaps food that is already prepared by a third party, and we can pay and have it. Whatever it may be, learn to understand each other. When I go back and look at the, the, the seerah, and the little that I read just to prepare for this particular talk, I can tell you that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam assisted and helped when it came to the milking of the goats. That means the milking and bringing the milk and whatever else. Today, we have milk and bread. When it came to assisting in cooking and so on, they would cook. To this