Maryam Lemu – WHAT FULFILS HALF OF YOUR FAITH

Maryam Lemu
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The speaker discusses the importance of fulfilling half of one's faith in marriage, rather than just losing it. They explain that completion of the faith is necessary to fulfill obligations, but not just a means to end up unhappy. The speaker also criticizes the idea of fulfilling half of one's faith in marriage, citing the danger it poses to others.

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			And then others see they get married because
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			it's fulfilling half of their faith. But what's
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			the point of fulfilling half of your faith
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			if you're going to end up spending the
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			rest of your life miserable?
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			You're not supposed to just sacrifice yourself by
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			getting married.
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			Allah doesn't want you to suffer, settle or
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			manage in marriage.
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			That's not why he prescribed marriage for us.
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			Rasulullah
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			said, when a man marries, he has fulfilled
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			half his religion, so let him fear Allah
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			regarding the remaining half.
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			What I understand from this hadith is that
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			the actual act of fulfilling
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			our obligations in marriage is completing half of
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			our faith. Let me repeat that. The act
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			of fulfilling
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			our obligations in marriage is what constitutes
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			completing half of our faith. The hadith is
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			not saying that once we've gotten married, that's
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			it. Half of our religion is complete.
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			It is fulfilling our obligations
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			in marriage that completes the other half.
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			So if you consider all acts of Ibadah,
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			both the obligatory and nonobligatory,
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			the prayer, the fasting, the zakah, the Hajj,
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			the Umrah, and everything else,
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			all put together, that constitutes half.
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			And then what is scary
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			is that the other half is for fulfilling
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			our obligations in marriage. It really
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			intimidates me when I think about how people
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			misbehave in marriage.
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			Despite it being half of our faith, we
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			see infidelity.