 and sisters, old folks, young ones, whoever's watching us right now. Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Welcome to the seventh episode of this special 30-day Ramadhan series, of course, with your favorite man and favorite host, Ahmed Ali, coming to your life in the holy city of Karbala. Now, tonight's episode is an episode you don't want to miss. Trust me when I say that, because number one, you'll get to know. And number two, you just have to stay tuned. But up until right now, if you old folks are chilling on the couch, old as an old old, but older than me, bring your kids, bring your young ones, let them sit and watch because tonight's episode is about them and how you should take care of them in a specific way. We're not going to give any just a small hint. Anyways, now producer, Sausi, take us to West Trendy. Welcome back, dear viewers. Once again, assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. We are live in the holy city of Karbala. And tonight, everyone is feeling good. Everyone is feeling happy. Seventh episode, alhamdulillah. We are live from the holy city. As I mentioned, it's 30 days that we are live. But anyways, what's trending? So you guys have probably heard of the heat wave, the hit Pakistan. 44 degrees, 111 Fahrenheit, 44 degrees Celsius, 111 Fahrenheit, only the US uses that. But 111, so as you can see in that picture, full screen now for us, as you can see that right there, they're trying to cool people down. 44 degrees and trying to cool people down. That's not an engine. Wow, is that water or is that juice? It's water, anyways. But yeah, and what's interesting, yet also, unfortunately, this guy's like, wow, with a power wash. With a power wash. Subhanallah, subhanallah. Jokes aside, these guys, 69 people died, 65 people actually died from that heat. But 44 degrees, come to Basra. Wow, come to Basra, you see 65 degrees. And they fast, subhanallah. They fast during that time. People go out to work during that time. But yeah, I mean, a quick story. They put eggs on the pavement and it boils. Subhanallah. And 44 degrees, 65 people died. Anyways, our condolences to those who died or their families. Anyways, now, what else is trending? The second item for today, if you guys heard in China, they're trying to have a closer connection between the man and the woman, although the number of men in China outnumber the number of women. And interestingly, in 2016, 33 million were born. 33.6 million were born men, more men than women. Now, that is a lot when you're trying to find out. But let's take the seminary session that they are looking at for a man to be enrolled in that is $4,500. It teaches you how to go on dates, how to dance, and all that. Astaghfirullah is, how do you date? The dating etiquette of between the men and women. So a bunch of Chinese guys just chilling there, waiting there just to get some dating instructions, if you will. $4,500. $4,500. They could have just came to me, Ahmad Ali. I would have done it. Also $4,500, but not USD. I could have done an IQD, $4,500. That's like, what, $3,500? Anyways, I'm just kidding. But let's go and check out what today's topic is all about. Once again, as you mentioned earlier, benefits those who are younger of an age. Now, once we reach the age of 18, we don't depend on our parents as much as we used to before. Because our mentality has grown, our intellect has grown, and we've just graduated, or you've just graduated high school. At least I hope you did, unless you slacked off or you didn't go to class and you failed. But hopefully everyone graduates. But what we're trying to say is that during that age, the hormones within the male and the female start to develop. And the mentality starts to develop as well. And when that happens, we see the man getting attracted to the woman. And when that happens, we see a lot of changes happening within society, especially within the young ones. And one of the problems that does occur is the marriage, or it's not marriage. It's the relationship that people have before they actually get to get married. Now, tonight, we're trying to focus on a few things. Tonight, if you guys saw the poster, we're talking about early marriage. Now, we're not talking about ages 12 to 14. I don't know. But we're talking about the late teenage, early 20s of what we need to do. Now, however, there are people that say, you know what? I need to wait. I need to see what the future has for me. I need to get that job. I need to get that car. I can't get married. I need to get that house. I can't get married right now. There's a bright future in front of me. Why would I occupy myself with a responsibility which I don't need at the moment? Some people think that others, and that's good. It's a good thing. You plan for your future before you get stopped by someone or by a responsibility. Now, another idea is that a lot of people say that when I do get married early, I get to spend a lot of time with the one I love when I was young because we can grow together. Anyways, our question for tonight is, are you guys ready for it? In three, two, one, there you go. Early marriage, good or bad? Is early marriage good or bad? That's your question for tonight. All you have to do is open WhatsApp down the number shown right now, plus nine, six, four, seven, seven, four, zero, six, seven, 18, 36. So plus nine, six, four, seven, seven, four, zero, six, seven, 18, 36. So what we want you to do is call in, send us a question, send us a voice message or a text message. We are live on Facebook as well, so you can go and check that out right now. But we just got the fishbowl. SubhanAllah, what is this fishbowl for? This fishbowl is specifically chosen for you guys. Your names, any participant that participates in this show, your names will place in this draw. We've got the pen coming out. Your name will be placed in this draw to a free trip to Karbala on our house. There are other many, many giveaways that we are giving away to Islam Al-An. As well for those who participate in our live show. But let's take a very short break and we'll be back very short, so stay tuned. Now, for those who, when you guys read the poster or when you guys saw the advertisement for tonight's episode, we will talk, tonight's topic, as we mentioned earlier, is about early marriage. Now, as I mentioned earlier, we're not talking about the age of 12 or 14. We're talking about the ages later on in your teenage, later on in your teenage. So when you become an adult, 18, early 20s, 21, 22, sound like that, along those lines. Now, according to debate.org, there's a race between those who are against early marriage and those who are with early marriage. So 51% say that no to early marriage and 49% say yes to early marriage. Now, I agree. I mean, early marriage has its pros as any idea does and also has its cons. We'll check out the pros and then we'll go into the cons. Now, the pros of early marriage, if you were to look at them, a lot of people say that there's no perfect time for marriage. You're gonna be as clueless as right now as you will be in 35 years old. So if you're 18, you're gonna be close of marriage unless you like get into other relationships and you get to know the headaches. No, not the headaches, it's good. But you'll get to know what, or you won't be able to understand fully. You won't be able to fully understand marriage. The second pro is that when you marry early, there's no pressure to have kids. So basically, you have an entire life in front of you or you have, what, six, seven years in front of you that there's still room for you to have kids. There's still room for you to develop as young couples. The third pro is your, or you can go on yacht right there. Oh, the co-producer gotta say yacht. So you can go on this yacht right here or the cruise ship and spend your young honeymoon, if you will, on the cruise ship. The third pro, your late teenage years are precious. So you want to spend those moments and every single individual remembers those teenage years. You want to spend your late teenage years, not early, late. You want to spend those moments with a person and share those moments with a person that you love, that you adore. And at the same time, with the person you care for the most. The fourth con, your kids, will be like your best friends. When you have kids at an early age or at a young age, your kids won't call you grandpa. You know, imagine someone having a kid at the age of 40. By the time your kid is 20, you're 60 years old. But if you have a kid at the age of like 20 or 21, by the time your kid or by the time your child is 20, you're just what, 41, 40? So that right there, there's not a huge gap between your age and the age of your son or your daughter. Now, another one is that you stay out of committing haram. And this is a key thing because right now, as you mentioned a few episodes ago, we were talking about how social media is playing a huge role within our youth especially. Because anything that's thrown at the youth right now, whether it's music, whether it's movies, whether even if it's news, whether it's series, things are thrown at our teenagers and our young adults that make them more sexually active. So by marrying early, you get to spend those halal moments with the one you actually need to love and need to spend time with. Now, we have a map for you that shows the legal, minimum age marriage for girls worldwide. Let's take a look at that map. So that map right there, there's a lot of green on that map. So the green means 18 years old and the light green 16 or 17 years old and then the yellowish 14 or 15 years old and then the nine or the light reddish is like 19 to 30 and then in the red, there's no minimum age. Where do we see red? We barely see it. There's no red on there. Yeah, it's like one small country but you know and the other color gray is not verified. But what we're trying to say from the pros that I just talked about, don't go running up to your parents right now, telling them you want to marry the girl you had a crush on when you were younger. No, no, no, no. That's not what we're trying to do. Chill, chill for a bit. Wait, because we can get to the cons very soon. For everything, for any concept, for any idea, for anything that we do say, we have to present the pros and then we have to present the cons for you. Now the cons for early marriage are quite a few as well. If we were to go through them, we might need an extra time but I'm gonna skim through them very swiftly. Number one, the responsibility and oh yes, with marriage comes a huge responsibility because with marriage, before you're getting married, your mom used to cook for you, your mom used to do the laundry, your mom used to clean your room but now when you're married, you can live with your parents but technically speaking, when you're married, you need that open space, you need that free space just for you and your wife and with that comes responsibility. You need to provide, you need to bring food, you need to bring everything that your wife needs especially if right away she's pregnant, then the responsibility grows but let's take a very short break and we'll back to continue the rest of the cons for early marriage. Once again, welcome back to hashtag LNT, the late night talk as you can see the desk right here saying late night talk as we are live in the whole city of Karbala. Once again, we remind everyone to call in and join us tonight as your names, anyone that participates in tonight's show or in the upcoming shows, your names will be written down and placed in this fish bowl right here to be drawn at the end of Ramadan inshallah for the final draw for a free trip to Karbala along with other giveaways that we are giving away to you guys or to the winners. Now, before the break, we were talking about a few cons of early marriage, you got to the first one, the second one on the contrary of the pros that we had teenage life, your teenage life is very important. You need to spend a lot of time trying to comprehend your school, trying to actually figure out your career. So when you do get married later on, that idea or that plan that you might have had during your teenage might just go away. Your later teenage life is very important. You just graduated from high school. You're planning a whole career in front of you. So that right there is very dangerous if someone doesn't fully understand what marriage is and gets married or he is forced or she is forced into marriage. Number three, divorce. We just received a text message, but let's read that after we talk about divorce. Now, divorce, when you're young, you're not fully understanding what marriage is all about. You might fall into mistakes. You might become short with each other. You might act differently because your mood is still changing, your mentality is still changing. Yes, you've matured, but you haven't matured enough. So that's one of the pros of cons. So divorce might come or a lot of people say early marriage does result into divorce. Is that true? We're gonna have to see after this text message that we just have received from. Fazimun from Trinidad. Okay, again, Fazimun from Trinidad. She says early marriages has its advantages and disadvantages at the same time. Or is that a sheer, I don't know. But for example, the person might think this is the right person for them now, but later on, the road they see, but later down the road, they see someone else. Okay, thank you very much, Fazimun. Your name was written down and was placed in the bowl. So thank you very much for participating in tonight's episode. Now, and I do apologize if you're a he and I said she, I do apologize for that, but if you're a she, I said she, we're all right. We are getting a few text messages. But yeah, guys, whoever's sending me the text message, send the other number of the text message, not my phone number. So send the other number as plus nine, six, four, seven, seven, four, zero, six, seven, 18, 36. The fourth con, we're continuing on cons. The fourth con of the fourth con, or disadvantages of early marriage is education. Now, when you're young, it's very difficult to continue your education. When you get married young, it's very difficult for you to continue your education because as I mentioned earlier, there's a huge responsibility on your shoulders. So if you can balance between the two, that's amazing. And you can rarely find someone that can do that. And if you can, that's going to be a problem. But we just have received another text message from. So all right, so it's going to show up very soon. Now, the fifth disadvantage of early marriage, we're going to move very swiftly through them. The fifth advantage or disadvantage of early marriage is career. Now, as I mentioned earlier again, when you're sitting or when you're thinking in your teenage or in your later to when you're 18 and you're trying to plan ahead for a career, marriage might stop you from that. And again, it comes, the responsibility comes again. You're limited. If you're trying to work night shift, your mind and your soul and your heart are at home. So there's a problem right there. You need to grow your career life and then go get married. That's one of the disadvantages of marriage. Now, let's take, let's see this text message that we just have received from. Khadija again from Tanzania, Masha'Allah. Shout out to our fans in Africa and Tanzania and Shunadad. Now, early marriage, she says early marriage, Khadija is a she. So early marriage is good if the boy is responsible and so is the girl. They should both be prepared for taking responsibilities mentally and physically. Of course, thank you very much, Khadija from Tanzania for joining us tonight. Okay, so Fazimun, Fazimun is a she. So I take my apology back, but anyways, thank you very much, Khadija for joining us tonight. Your name is also in the bowl. Insha'Allah, you will get the chance to win the free trip to Karbala. Now, the fourth one or the seventh disadvantage of getting married are children's life. Now, according to CDC, children born out of teenage mothers tend to have a lower score in school because especially in the West, if you're trying to have a sustainable life, both the man and the woman or the male and the female need to work in order to have a sustainable life. Unless you're well off, then that's a different story. But if you're just getting married, you've just graduated and trying to get married, that right there, the children's life, you won't have time to spend with your children. You put them in daycare. So the time you spend with your kids, which is very crucial for them, will reduce the children's score in school. Now, number eight, health. Health is also another issue within, or one of the disadvantages of early marriage. But let's go check out the expert and what he has to say about tonight's topic. So let's go and do that. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. There is no doubt that in Islam, early marriage is encouraged. The Quran says that let the young and the ones that have not been married, get married. And when we come to the narrations of Ahlul Bayt, we see an over-emphasis on marrying at a young age. When you're young, you haven't picked up bad habits. You're easy to change. You can easily adapt to your partner's needs. You could change your sleep pattern, your work pattern, your daily routines, and so on and so forth. When you're young, you'll have a lot more suitors. You'll have better chances of getting married, starting a family, having children. You go out in your work, you make a living. When you're young, you have a better chance of supporting your family at a younger age. So there's no doubt that getting married at a young age is something positive and something endorsed by Islam. Of course, what do we mean by young? Obviously above the legal age. And to an age where the person feels mature, feels responsible. Now, too young is not good as well. Some people get married and they don't even know the meaning of responsibility. They're not even mature to live with another partner and start a new family and have children because they are children themselves. So this is something very important to care for. At the end of the day, it differs from person to person. One person can be ready at the age of 21. Another person can be ready at the age of 18. Another person can be ready at the age of 27, for example. It varies from person to person. The level of maturity, being responsible, feeling the responsibility, being able to take care of a family and raise their children, it varies from person to person. So one should not marry young just for the sake of marrying young. The person should marry as long as that person feels responsible and can start a family in a mature way. If those conditions are met, then this person should marry as young and should not delay marriage until he's older in his 30s or she's in her 30s. The younger the better, as long as the requirements are fulfilled. Thank you very much, Sidi Hassan Kuzmini, for joining us tonight. We do thank everyone. So we do thank Sidi Hassan for joining us tonight. It's been a long time since we had him, so a great shout out to him for joining us tonight. Now, we are receiving a few phone calls, insha'Allah, they'll come through very soon. Now, one of the things that Sidi Hassan also talked about is if you feel ready, and that's one of the most important things that we need to consider as young individuals, because I'm young, so one of the things that we do need to concentrate on is that if we are able, and if we are ready to get married early. Now, we do have a call from, Fatah of India. Assalamu Alaikum. I just want to say that Ali is not bad, but we're not concerned in the delivery, you know. Yes, hello. I'm listening to you. I was about to say welcome to hashtag L&T, but yes, continue. Hello. Yes, so you think early marriage is not good because it's not bad or it's not... Early marriage is not bad, but we cannot concentrate on studies. Yes. Now we cannot fulfill our dreams. Thank you very much, sister Faap. I'm a Vakil from India for joining us tonight. Yes, if you think in your opinion that makes sense, then why not? But your name will be placed in the bowl, inshallah. India, okay. So your name will be placed in the drawer. So for tonight, so we're trying to conclude because we have less than a minute to have, less than a minute to conclude. But at the end, if you're ready for marriage, go get married. If you're mature enough, go get married. If your parents feel like you need to get married, then go get married. That's it for tonight of hashtag L&T with Yaman Ahmad Ali. Do join us in the upcoming episode, inshallah. 2 a.m. Karbala time, 12 a.m. London time and 7 p.m. D.C. time. Once again, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.