Naima B. Robert – Advice on Social Media for Muslim Couples TMC E5

What would you say

has been the impact of social media on

Muslims and Muslim marriages?

I think it's raised

a unrealistic

expectation

of what marriage should be like.

You see, when people see certain images,

they're only seeing one aspect of

that story.

Yeah? Maybe it's a superficial aspect of that

story or that marriage or that relationship.

So they're thinking,

well, my life doesn't look like this. But

what they don't realize is probably taken that

couple couple of takes before they got that

final shots. Yeah.

Yeah. So

I think that is creating

a,

like, a

like a it's like a fantasy. You know?

Like, you know, my marriage, you know, should

be like this, or it's not like this.

You know? And it's kind of making us

look down on what we have in our

relationship,

and that's very unhealthy. Why? Because

we know in our tradition,

you know, we should always look to people

who have lesser than us Mhmm. Not more

than us. Why? Because when we look at

people who have lesser than us, in

in inevitably, it will make us grateful. But

when we always look at people who have

things that we don't have,

what's gonna

do what's that going to do to us?

It's going to make us feel ungrateful.

And then because we're always seeing people having

more than us or better than us supposedly

supposedly.

Yeah?

But when you look closely,

the reality is quite different because, you know,

we often think

the grass is green on the other side.

But the reality is the truth is the

grass is green wherever you water it.

Boom.

Yeah. 100%.