Your spouse are your garments and you are their garments.

Surah Baqarah, verse 187

They (your spouse) are your garments and you are their garments.”  (Surah Baqarah, verse 187)

Allāh compares the relationship between a husband and wife as clothing.

Allāh says that both the husband and wife are “libaas”, or “garments” for each other. This shows the equality that Allah places between spouses and how each partner has a role in the relationship.

Allāh compares your spouse with garments, or clothing, because:

• Clothes are close to you, behind your clothes is your bare skin. A spouse is close to you in that manner, emotionally and physically.

• Clothes protect your skin from the outside. A husband protects his wife, and the wife protects her husband. Together, they protect and support each other.

• Clothes beautify you. A husband and wife compliment each other, in this life and the next.

• Clothes are comfortable. When one is around their spouse, they feel at ease and their hearts are at rest. One can relax around their spouse and find comfort in them and their words when they are in difficulty.

• Clothes hide your faults and screen you from the public. A husband and wife should not discuss each other’s faults to the outside or complain to others about their spouse. Your faults are hidden by Allāh as a blessing to you.

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