How to Keep your Marriage Strong .. even after 80 years!

Words of wisdom from a couple married for 80 years.. “let him think he’s the boss”.. her advice.. “I need someone to look after me” . his advice.. “go with the flow.. you can’t plan everything.. somethings just have to happen as they happen”.. their advice. Masha’Allah .. Islamic or what!!!! MashaAllah. we have so [...]

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Yasir Qadhi .. Rethinking romance. Discover Islam’s first love story

This is fairly explicit.. but it’s very important viewing for all Muslim couples.. Learn about healthy relationships between husbands and wives .. it’s essential .. we know so little. Hollywood will not teach us anything.. and this is a wonderful starting point. Allah bless and reward the brother for opening up a subject often not [...]

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Marriage is a sign of the Existence of Allah

I heard two lectures today on marriage and in listening to them I realised something that I had not seen before.. a connection between two well known facts about marriage in Islam.. one that reminds us of the fact that Shaytaan wants nothing better than to see the break down of marriages and the reason [...]

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The Marriage relationship in Islam .. More signs from Allah

And among His Signs is this that He created for you spouses of your own kind, that you may dwell in tranquility with them, and He has put love and mercy for one another: verily in that are Signs for those who reflect.” (Quran 30:21) When will our marriages as members of the Ummah of [...]

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The Family Unit in Islam

A brother who treats his wife as if she is his trust from Allah will rarely find her not falling over herself to please him and keep him happy. Obedience to the husband is not about making his life wonderful .. and her life a drudgery of slavery to him as the non muslim world [...]

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Home.. where each lives for the other and all live for Allah

In Sura’tul Al Nahl (Sura 16) in the Qur’an, Allah (SWT) says, “And Allah has made for you in your homes an abode.” I was talking to a good friend today about home, families and the relationship between husband and wife. I mentioned that hanging in my lounge i have a plaque that reads “Home, [...]

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The Muslims are to each other.. the Best of Companions/Friends

THE MANNERS OF COMPANIONSHIP Shaykh Badrud-Deen al-Ghazzee (d.984H) The Shaykh – rahimahullaah – said, Know O pious brother – may Allaah make our affairs good – that the manners of companionship and good relationships are of various types, of which I will explain, such as will show the person of intellect the manners of the [...]

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Love and Mercy Between the Spouses

Allah SWT has said (meaning) “‎”Help you one another in Al-Birr and At-Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety)”. (5:2) Al Quran In his lecture “Love and Mercy between the spouses”.. Shaykh Muhammad Al Jibaly said about this “The husband and wife should help each other to fulfil their duties to Allah and to each other in [...]

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The Best of all Marriages

I was discussing the matter of obedience to the husband as a requirement of Allah SWT recently with some sisters. In today’s world, there is a distaste even amongst Muslims for this thought.. yet our Prophet SAW said that if he was to order anyone to bow before another human being, it would be for [...]

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Hadiths relating to Marriage

Advice to Husbands:- Jabir Narrated that the Prophet, peace be upon him, gave these instructions in his sermon during Farewell Pilgrimage: “Fear God regarding women; for you have taken them [in marriage] with the trust of God.” [Mishkat] Narrated Aisha, God’s messenger said: “Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have [...]

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