Maryam Lemu – WHAT FULFILS HALF OF YOUR FAITH

And then others see they get married because

it's fulfilling half of their faith. But what's

the point of fulfilling half of your faith

if you're going to end up spending the

rest of your life miserable?

You're not supposed to just sacrifice yourself by

getting married.

Allah doesn't want you to suffer, settle or

manage in marriage.

That's not why he prescribed marriage for us.

Rasulullah

said, when a man marries, he has fulfilled

half his religion, so let him fear Allah

regarding the remaining half.

What I understand from this hadith is that

the actual act of fulfilling

our obligations in marriage is completing half of

our faith. Let me repeat that. The act

of fulfilling

our obligations in marriage is what constitutes

completing half of our faith. The hadith is

not saying that once we've gotten married, that's

it. Half of our religion is complete.

It is fulfilling our obligations

in marriage that completes the other half.

So if you consider all acts of Ibadah,

both the obligatory and nonobligatory,

the prayer, the fasting, the zakah, the Hajj,

the Umrah, and everything else,

all put together, that constitutes half.

And then what is scary

is that the other half is for fulfilling

our obligations in marriage. It really

intimidates me when I think about how people

misbehave in marriage.

Despite it being half of our faith, we

see infidelity.