What Islamic Marriage Asks of Both People

Islamic tradition describes marriage as mithaqan ghalizan — a solemn covenant — and places mutual, reciprocal obligations on both spouses: kindness, honesty, financial responsibility from the husband, and the wife's full agency over her own wealth and decisions. Scholars differ on many of the details of how these obligations are lived out, and that diversity of interpretation is part of a healthy, honest tradition — not something to be flattened into a single "correct" answer. What matters most for two people getting to know each other is not agreeing on every point of fiqh, but being honest about their own practice and expectations: how prayer, family life, and religious upbringing of children will actually look day to day. A platform or a checklist can surface these topics; it cannot answer them for you, and it should not try to impose one interpretation of Islam as the only legitimate one.