 What is the purpose of marriage in Islam? Why Islam emphasised on the importance of getting married? Why? So when I talk of the purpose and the philosophy of marriage, I'm talking of those things that Islam expect us to achieve within our marriages. We do not achieve those things. It means our marriage has not reached that level of marriage which Allah Ta'barakot Allah expect us to achieve. You know, whenever marriage is conducted within our communities and especially those who get married, they often become so excited, so happy when the tradition of fulfilling half of a religion is quoted. But there is a point here we need to understand. When the holy prophet is being quoted to upset that whoever is married half of his religion is fulfilled, it means potential. It doesn't mean that the moment you are married is fulfilled. It means those challenges that are there to make it difficult for you to be religious. Once you are married, half of them are curtailed. That is why, if you look at the tradition, Prophet continued to say Then the one who is getting married should be conscious of the teachings of Allah in the last half. So therefore when we are told half of our religion is fulfilled it's not in actual meaning potential. If you get into marriage and you don't follow Allah's order the half will not be there. Because sometimes you see people before marriage they are religious, after marriage they go different way. You want to tell me still half of religion is fulfilled. If I am people they are conscious of their salads after marriage they forget half of religion is fulfilled. So it's important we understand this reason and we should not get excited too much. Marriage is something positive marriage is something that can take you to Allah easily if you know how to go about it. So therefore kindly pay attention let's unpack this topic so that we are able to understand the best practices that we need to put in our marriages whether you are married for 100 years or not it's a lesson that all of us need to learn. If you look at the camp of Abba Abdullah there were husbands and wives there who went there and stood alongside Abba Abdullah So therefore if there is one lesson that we can learn from Karbala and from the movement of Abba Abdullah is the lesson of marriage. What are the things that you want to achieve in your marriage? You know there has been a survey which was conducted some years ago by Muslim scholars on what is the criteria to measure the success of your marriage if you are able to satisfy one another then you are successful in your marriage and Islam said that's not a yardstick of success meaning if your desire is satisfied according to some Islam said then they came to the second one they said the second one is what? they said there are two things if they are met in a marriage that marriage is successful that one you trust the person and you are pleased when you are with the person sometimes you may trust but you are not happy when you are with the person sometimes you are happy but you are not trusting the person so they said the second yardstick to measure is that you are happy and at the same time you trust the person Islam said that is okay but that's not the yardstick what's the yardstick to measure the success of marriage within the religion of Islam is for your marriage to become a model for others to inspire to get married for the sake of marriage is to build civilization that will love Allah and worship Allah hence let us look at what Quran mentioned as philosophies of marriage number one the ayah I quoted Quran 30 the ayah I quoted Quran 30 verse 21 Allah is saying the first major philosophy of marriage is peace of mind so good Allah you are married and married are you in peace or you are not in peace I always mention this one I give married letters Allah there are people men when they knock off from work they don't go home Allah you ask them why they say no I want by the time I go she is fast asleep because I don't want drop and the same thing you visit the lady said haji is not back Allah I pray by the time he comes back I'm sleeping you see there are people they are in marriage they are just forcing it they are not happy they say no no for the sake of children let's hang on no no for the sake of our name in the community let's hang on Islam says the first philosophy of marriage is Sukun hence Allah said litaskunu ilayha so that you dwell in them you obtain tranquility through them one other way to obtain tranquility is what is Salah is Zikr of Allah so Allah Tabarakawata Allah is telling us in Quran through your marriage you can obtain peace so if I'm married and there is no peace in my marriage then there is something wrong in your marriage believe me Allah number two philosophy of marriage in Islam is for your marriage to lead you to Allah is for your wife to become means of proximity to Allah and your husband become means of proximity to Allah you check our community the more people get married the more they stay away from the center you tell them I'm busy now I'm married Quran is telling us وَمِنْ عَيَاتِهِ among the size of knowing Allah is marriage and as they said in theology there are two ways of knowing Allah either within yourself or outside marriage is knowing Allah within oneself if my Salat is weak the moment I get married Islam expect me to take it to the next level if my Quran recitation is weak the moment I get married Islam expect me to take it to the next level this is the second philosophy of marriage in Islam when we are told marriage is ibadah is because of these things it's not that after getting married you sit in there the Maulana sit in there and before you contract he said Allah Kitabillah he said I'm conducting this marriage based on the book of Allah and the tradition of Prophet what does it mean? after this marriage I must be religious three philosophy of marriage is for your marriage to produce pious children and product it walla du salih a child who respect everyone a child who recite Quran a child who recite Marathia a child who recite Loha a child who recite Loha a child who recite Loha a child who lafa a child who recite Loha a child who recite Loha walla du salih it's one of the philosophy of marriage hence Fatima Tuzahra and Amira al-Mu'mineen gave asahasan in Hussain