Imam Gazali, one of the early Muslim intelligentsias in the Islamic culture, comments on the rights of the husband  over his wife saying that these can be condensed in two points: to maintain his affairs and keep his secrets and the other is not to overburden him with unnecessary demands and to urge him to earn his living from lawful sources by refraining from his eating from his earnings if these are unlawfully got.

          She should obey the husband as long as his commands comply with God's instructions and preserve her chastity and his possessions. God says in this regard what means:

"Therefore, the righteous women are devoutly obedient (to Allah and to their husbands), and guard in the husband's absence what Allah orders them to guard (e.g. their chastity, their husband's property, etc.)." 4:34

 To conclude, the obligations of women towards their husbands can be recapitulated as follows:

1- Obedience: It is not blind obedience; it is restricted obedience that does not make a woman lose her dignity or violate her rights. It is not a compelling authority exercised by men over women, making their relationship just like that between a  master and slave, which conflicts with the rules of the establishing a family based on love, compassion and physical and psychological stability. God says (what means):

"And among His Signs is this, that He created for you wives from among yourselves, that you may find repose in them, and He has put between you affection and mercy." 30:21

2- Guarding her chastity and her husband's property, both in his presence and absence.

 3-Shielding his hearing, his eye and his nose against what God has made unlawful, so he hears nothing from her but that which is good, looks at nothing but that which is beautiful, and smells nothing but that which is sweet.

           However, serving one's husband is not obligatory and Hadiths (reports by the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him) refer only to volunteering, good manners and consorting in kindness. This is the opinion adopted by Imams Malek, Abu-Hanifah  and Ash-Shafi'y- two important jurists of the Islamic laws.