This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. You're going to. Thank you. Asam, everyone. During the Gulf tour, I received a number of letters.

Here's one of them.

I am a non-Muslim working in Kuwait for a few years,

and I've been very close to accepting Islam

as I was impressed by a very pious Muslim colleague and wanted to marry him.

So I wanted to leave, I wanted to learn more about Islam.

The man I like is a Pakistani brother and to know his culture I got close to another Muslim

female colleague who is married to a Pakistani family. I'm studying about Islam

in the Quran where the rights of a wife are so impressive and full of equity.

But when I see my female friend's life,

she is asked to do so much work for her in-laws

and is forced by her husband to take care of her mother-in-law.

And the mother-in-law tortures her a lot by creating

fights between the couple. Also the sister-in-laws are expecting her to work like a maid

all the time.

Her husband is very strict, and I see a lot of injustice

where he threatens her of leaving her

if she doesn't listen and do what in-laws want. If this is Islam,

then I'm confused about becoming a Muslim. What's your advice?

This is actually not the first time I've got a question like this one. There

are a bunch of people who ask me questions about the rights of women, and

particularly having to do with in-laws. There's a complicated subject but I want to lay down a couple of

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