 On one hand, the joint family system, and on the other hand, the nuclear family system, what is the Islamic perspective about it? And this is where we'll have to go to the Qur'an at the Seerah of Muhammad and Alem Muhammad Salawatullahi A.A. What does Islam say about it? Does Islam go with the joint family system? Or does it totally agree with the nuclear family system? Islam actually has looked at both systems. It has taken the positive elements of both, and it had left alone the negative elements of both. What Islam would say, and this is what I would like to say that, you know, Islam has preferred. I hope the elders don't get it wrong here. Islam has preferred. I'm using the word preferred because this is not an issue of wajib and haram. Islam has preferred what I would call semi-detached family system, or if you want to call it semi-attached family system, whether you're looking at the glass half full or half empty. I'm using these terms from the real estate business. So Islam talks about semi-attached family system. What do I mean by that? It means that, you know, the families, as far as their households are concerned, as far as their maqanah are concerned, they are separate. But as far as their hearts are concerned, they are not separate. They can live in separate housing, whether they are neighbors or far away, doesn't matter. But they have to maintain the relationship by the value in Islam, which is known as sila tul raham. What is sila tul raham mean? Even in Urdu, we use that term. Raham means the womb, sila means the link. Sila tul raham means the relationship that Allah SWT has established among the members of the family because of the common mother. And that is a tie which has to be maintained at all the times. So you can have grown up children who after marriage move away from the parents. It wouldn't be a problem as long as they have still maintained their relationship, their attachment, and their sila with their parents and the rest of the family. Salawat. Let me just put the three systems in perspective here. The joint family system, where the maqanah is same, but the hearts are divided. They live under the same roof. But if you look inside, they are not together. In the nuclear family system, the houses are divided and even the hearts are apart. What Islam is talking about is that you can have a separate household, but your heart should be linked and close to one another. Salawat. This issue of sila tul raham and its opposite, qata ul raham, to severe the ties that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has established among the relatives. This is an issue which has been mentioned in the Quran. So many times there is more than the mention of namaz in the Quran, where Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says Bama Amara and Yusuf, the command he has given to maintain the ties or the prohibition where he says where the ties are being broken. So this is actually the foundation of the family life in Islam, that when it comes to the physical space and the maqanah, you can be separate from one another as long as your hearts are there together, your concern is there and your love for one another is still there. Salawat. And I think this is what we have to understand. Mashallah, you know, the immigrant generation also now is reaching to the old age. They've grown up children, you know, they're already married, they have grandchildren now. And this is where we have to realize that we have to look at things from the perspective of Islam. In laws on both sides, have to look at this issue, that you know, the new family, they need space. They need kind of privacy. They need to establish their own roots. As parents or in-laws become a good Baqban, become a good gardener. You know, in summer what do you do here? You already have two grown up, you know, mature plants. You want to put a new one in the middle. The first thing you do is you look at the distance, because the mature plants, if they are already that close, and if you plant a new one in between, where the sun is not coming, that new plant is not going to get energy, it will die and wither away. So you need that space in between. So when you are planting a new family in your own garden, look at that space that they require to establish their own roots, to create this bond strongly among themselves. And this is as far as the perspective of the, you know, the parents on both sides are concerned. And on the other side, of course, the new family has to look at the issues. And in Islam, there is nothing like just moving away and that's it. You know, that relationship, silat-ur-ra'am has to be there. The support has to be there. The respect has to be there from the other side.