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Allah made man in a way he is imperfect and incomplete without a life partner. Nothing can substitute marriage and the raising of a family. Both the male and female genders need each other from a profound, as well as physical perspective. At the point when they are put next to each other, they are complete. This is the law of creation and it rules the entire universe.The Qur’an says:
هُنَّ لِبَاسٌ لَكُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ لِبَاسٌ لَهُنَّ
“They (wives) are as a dress for you (husbands) and you are as a dress for them.” (2: 187)
In other words, they are the improvement, partner, and guard of each other's honor and mysteries, and every one requires the other. Man can't live respectably and famously in the public arena without dress. He feels himself in a condition of defect. The companion also saves one from stresses, futility, vagrancy, aimlessness, and isolation. As a dress brightens and decorates man, companions also are the improvement of one another. One of the greatest blessings of Allah to man is a nice life‑ partner. The Prophet (S) said in this regard:
ما اسْتَفَادَ امْرُؤٌ مُسْلِمٌ فَائِدَةً بَعْدَ الإسْلامِ أفْضَلَ مِنْ زَوْجَةٍ مُسْلِمَةٍ (أو صَالِحَةٍ).
“The Muslim man has not achieved any benefit (from Allah’s blessings) better than a suitable Muslim wife, after Islam.”
According to scholars, though marriage is a highly recommended act, it becomes obligatory when there is a chance of falling into sin.
The Prophet (S) says, “No house has been built in Islam more beloved in the sight of Allah than through marriage.”
On another occasion the Prophet (S) said, “The best people of my nation (Ummat) are those who get married and have chosen their wives, and the worst people of my nation are those who have kept away from marriage and are passing their lives as bachelors.”
Imam ‘Ali (A.S.) exhorts, “Marry, because marriage is the tradition of the Prophet (S).” The Prophet (S) also said, “Whosoever likes to follow my tradition, then he should know that marriage is from my tradition.”
Various studies prove that married people remain healthier, physically and mentally. Islam has always maintained that marriage is beneficial for us in many ways.
Islam also regards marriage as a way to acquire spiritual perfection.
The Prophet (S) said, “One who marries, has already guarded half of his religion, therefore he should fear Allah for the other half.” How true! A person who fulfills his sexual urges lawfully would rarely be distracted in spiritual pursuits.
The Prophet (S) said, “Two rak‘ats (cycles) prayed by a married person are better than the night-vigil and the fast of a single person.”
The Holy Prophet (S) remarked, “Give spouses to your single ones, because Allah makes their morality better (improves it) (under the shadow of marriage) and expands their sustenance and increases their generosity (human values).”
Likewise, satisfaction of sexual longing and desire isn't the main accomplishment and benefit of marriage. It is only one of its advantages. All things being equal, aside from mitigating and soothing the sexual sense, it has numerous different viewpoints and aspects of greatness, worth and significance, such as raising a family.
It gifts man with different factors like commitment, completion progress, maturity, development, improvement of character, solace and a lot more important advantage. Obligation to a spouse and family brings unselfishness, wonder and a feeling of social obligation, and makes large numbers of his capacities and sleeping talents bloom and prove to be fruitful.
After marriage, the character of a man changes into a social character and he sees himself as totally liable for the security of his wife and children' s future. On this record, he utilizes the sum total of his senses, initiatives and abilities.
There is an enjoyment and progress in raising a family to which nothing can be the substitute.
Allah, who is the Creator of human beings and knows their peculiarities, characteristics, nature and instincts, described the creation of man and woman and placing them side by side, as one of His wisdoms and signs, and introduced marriage as the cause of love, affection, beneficence and comfort of man, saying:
وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا لِتَسْكُنُوا إِلَيْهَا وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَكُمْ مَوَدَّةً وَرَحْمَةً إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
“And one of His signs is that he created mates for you from yourselves that you may find rest in them, and He put between you love and compassion; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect.”(30:21)
This peace and comfort is not the common and ordinary conventional comfort, which psychologists and psychiatrists describe; instead, in addition to that, it includes dignity, grace, balance of thought, vision and spirit, the feeling of being worthy and having a serious personality and the achievement of additional honour, status and so on.
Marriage and family raising imprints such an effect upon the existence of man by upgrading the worth of his personality on the way to its maturity, that even his practices and services become more valued and worthier before Allah and the angels, so that its value goes up to many times the previous one. For example, consider this Hadith of Imam Ja’far (a.s):
رَكْعَتانِ يُصَلِّيهِما المُتَزَوِّجُ أفْضَلُ مِن سَبْعِينَ رَكعَة يُصَلِّيهَا العَزِبُ.
“Two cycles of service offered by a married person is more excellent and worthier than seventy cycles of service offered by a bachelor and unmarried person.”
The unit which is formed through marriage is the object of Allah’s love and kindness, and He views it with tenderness and benevolence. The great ambassador of Allah (S) has put it in this way:
“No construction has been constructed lovelier than marriage to Allah”‑ May He be honoured and glorified.
Ali (a.s), the chief of believers, has described a very worthy fact about the value of marriage:
لَمْ يَكُن أحَدٌ مِن أصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلّى اللهُ عَليهِ وَآلهِ يَتَزَوَّجُ إلاّ قَالَ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلّى اللهُ عَلَيه وَآلهِ: “كمل دينه.”
“There were none of the friends of the Prophet (S) who would marry but the Prophet (S) would say his faith (religion) had been completed.”
Marriage has this much worth and value that the Prophet of Allah (S) decorated the chests of those who married with medals of honor.
It is obvious from these expressions of the Prophet (S) that while an individual doesn't wed, his faith lies in threat. The reason is that sexual nature, profound tensions, feeling of isolation and vanity, being without cover and the absence of a feeling of social obligation, as well as numerous different damages of staying unmarried can harm the foundations of man's confidence and weaken it.
Marriage and establishing a family and resting beside an excellent, virtuous, lovely, sympathetic and faithful spouse not only controls sexual lust, but also a spiritual relaxation and comfort is achieved.
At the same time, man’s dependence and trust upon Allah is increased and grows. He moves out of the apprehensive condition and homelessness. He senses and feels security and personality. His eyes and mind are distracted and detached from other places, and concentrate and focus on his spouse.
Consequently, he achieves more proximity and nearness to Allah, and Allah’s beneficences cover him up more than ever, and his faith is strengthened and reaches completion.
Aqib Mansha Lone
E-mail:------------ aqibraj@gmail.com
Allah made man in a way he is imperfect and incomplete without a life partner. Nothing can substitute marriage and the raising of a family. Both the male and female genders need each other from a profound, as well as physical perspective. At the point when they are put next to each other, they are complete. This is the law of creation and it rules the entire universe.The Qur’an says:
هُنَّ لِبَاسٌ لَكُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ لِبَاسٌ لَهُنَّ
“They (wives) are as a dress for you (husbands) and you are as a dress for them.” (2: 187)
In other words, they are the improvement, partner, and guard of each other's honor and mysteries, and every one requires the other. Man can't live respectably and famously in the public arena without dress. He feels himself in a condition of defect. The companion also saves one from stresses, futility, vagrancy, aimlessness, and isolation. As a dress brightens and decorates man, companions also are the improvement of one another. One of the greatest blessings of Allah to man is a nice life‑ partner. The Prophet (S) said in this regard:
ما اسْتَفَادَ امْرُؤٌ مُسْلِمٌ فَائِدَةً بَعْدَ الإسْلامِ أفْضَلَ مِنْ زَوْجَةٍ مُسْلِمَةٍ (أو صَالِحَةٍ).
“The Muslim man has not achieved any benefit (from Allah’s blessings) better than a suitable Muslim wife, after Islam.”
According to scholars, though marriage is a highly recommended act, it becomes obligatory when there is a chance of falling into sin.
The Prophet (S) says, “No house has been built in Islam more beloved in the sight of Allah than through marriage.”
On another occasion the Prophet (S) said, “The best people of my nation (Ummat) are those who get married and have chosen their wives, and the worst people of my nation are those who have kept away from marriage and are passing their lives as bachelors.”
Imam ‘Ali (A.S.) exhorts, “Marry, because marriage is the tradition of the Prophet (S).” The Prophet (S) also said, “Whosoever likes to follow my tradition, then he should know that marriage is from my tradition.”
Various studies prove that married people remain healthier, physically and mentally. Islam has always maintained that marriage is beneficial for us in many ways.
Islam also regards marriage as a way to acquire spiritual perfection.
The Prophet (S) said, “One who marries, has already guarded half of his religion, therefore he should fear Allah for the other half.” How true! A person who fulfills his sexual urges lawfully would rarely be distracted in spiritual pursuits.
The Prophet (S) said, “Two rak‘ats (cycles) prayed by a married person are better than the night-vigil and the fast of a single person.”
The Holy Prophet (S) remarked, “Give spouses to your single ones, because Allah makes their morality better (improves it) (under the shadow of marriage) and expands their sustenance and increases their generosity (human values).”
Likewise, satisfaction of sexual longing and desire isn't the main accomplishment and benefit of marriage. It is only one of its advantages. All things being equal, aside from mitigating and soothing the sexual sense, it has numerous different viewpoints and aspects of greatness, worth and significance, such as raising a family.
It gifts man with different factors like commitment, completion progress, maturity, development, improvement of character, solace and a lot more important advantage. Obligation to a spouse and family brings unselfishness, wonder and a feeling of social obligation, and makes large numbers of his capacities and sleeping talents bloom and prove to be fruitful.
After marriage, the character of a man changes into a social character and he sees himself as totally liable for the security of his wife and children' s future. On this record, he utilizes the sum total of his senses, initiatives and abilities.
There is an enjoyment and progress in raising a family to which nothing can be the substitute.
Allah, who is the Creator of human beings and knows their peculiarities, characteristics, nature and instincts, described the creation of man and woman and placing them side by side, as one of His wisdoms and signs, and introduced marriage as the cause of love, affection, beneficence and comfort of man, saying:
وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ أَنْ خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مِنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا لِتَسْكُنُوا إِلَيْهَا وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَكُمْ مَوَدَّةً وَرَحْمَةً إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
“And one of His signs is that he created mates for you from yourselves that you may find rest in them, and He put between you love and compassion; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect.”(30:21)
This peace and comfort is not the common and ordinary conventional comfort, which psychologists and psychiatrists describe; instead, in addition to that, it includes dignity, grace, balance of thought, vision and spirit, the feeling of being worthy and having a serious personality and the achievement of additional honour, status and so on.
Marriage and family raising imprints such an effect upon the existence of man by upgrading the worth of his personality on the way to its maturity, that even his practices and services become more valued and worthier before Allah and the angels, so that its value goes up to many times the previous one. For example, consider this Hadith of Imam Ja’far (a.s):
رَكْعَتانِ يُصَلِّيهِما المُتَزَوِّجُ أفْضَلُ مِن سَبْعِينَ رَكعَة يُصَلِّيهَا العَزِبُ.
“Two cycles of service offered by a married person is more excellent and worthier than seventy cycles of service offered by a bachelor and unmarried person.”
The unit which is formed through marriage is the object of Allah’s love and kindness, and He views it with tenderness and benevolence. The great ambassador of Allah (S) has put it in this way:
“No construction has been constructed lovelier than marriage to Allah”‑ May He be honoured and glorified.
Ali (a.s), the chief of believers, has described a very worthy fact about the value of marriage:
لَمْ يَكُن أحَدٌ مِن أصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلّى اللهُ عَليهِ وَآلهِ يَتَزَوَّجُ إلاّ قَالَ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلّى اللهُ عَلَيه وَآلهِ: “كمل دينه.”
“There were none of the friends of the Prophet (S) who would marry but the Prophet (S) would say his faith (religion) had been completed.”
Marriage has this much worth and value that the Prophet of Allah (S) decorated the chests of those who married with medals of honor.
It is obvious from these expressions of the Prophet (S) that while an individual doesn't wed, his faith lies in threat. The reason is that sexual nature, profound tensions, feeling of isolation and vanity, being without cover and the absence of a feeling of social obligation, as well as numerous different damages of staying unmarried can harm the foundations of man's confidence and weaken it.
Marriage and establishing a family and resting beside an excellent, virtuous, lovely, sympathetic and faithful spouse not only controls sexual lust, but also a spiritual relaxation and comfort is achieved.
At the same time, man’s dependence and trust upon Allah is increased and grows. He moves out of the apprehensive condition and homelessness. He senses and feels security and personality. His eyes and mind are distracted and detached from other places, and concentrate and focus on his spouse.
Consequently, he achieves more proximity and nearness to Allah, and Allah’s beneficences cover him up more than ever, and his faith is strengthened and reaches completion.
Aqib Mansha Lone
E-mail:------------ aqibraj@gmail.com
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