Thomas Hughes (priest) Quotes

Thomas Patrick Hughes, was a British Anglican missionary who served under the auspices of the Church Mission Society in Peshawar in British India for 20 years. Noted for his facility with languages, Islamic scholarship and contributions to the completion All Saints Memorial Church in Peshawar. Wikipedia  

✵ 1838 – 1911
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“Marry women who will love their hus­bands and be very prolific, for I want you to be more numerous than any other people.”

Quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam, p.314, who refers to book 13 of Mishkatu'l Masa­bih ("nic­hes for lamps [of the tradition]", a compilation of Sunni tradit­ions by the 12th-century Imam Husain al-Baghaw­i, expanded in the 14th century by Shaykh Waliuddin). Also quoted Elst, Koenraad. (1997) The Demographic Siege
Dictionary of Islam

“That is the moat perfect Muslim whose disposition is the best, and the best of you is he who behaves best to his wives.”

Muhammad's teaching on wives, as given in the Traditions. Quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam.
Dictionary of Islam

“The best wedding is that upon which the least trouble and expense is bestowed.”

sayings of Muhammad on the subject of marriage, quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam.
Dictionary of Islam

“Admonish your wives with kindness, because woman were created from a crooked bone of the side; therefore, if you wish to straighten it, you will break it, and if you let it alone, it will always be crooked."”

Muhammad's teaching on wives, as given in the Traditions. Quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam.
Dictionary of Islam

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