Shafayat Mohamed – FOLLOWING THE SUNNAH OF GETTING MARRIED

Just to show you how far away we

are going from Surat al Mustaqim, human beings.

When Allah

created the world

and then he created Adam

Well, Adam,

and he taught Adam

Do you recall what is one of the

first thing he did?

What was one of the first thing he

did?

Well, there are many things he did. Right?

But one of the first thing he did

for

Adam

Allah.

He created He

created a wife for him. And that's a

long

story, which I don't have the time to

get into. Sometimes I do it in a

wedding.

One day if Allah give me the hiday,

I'll do it in the jummah.

So he created a wife for him.

He gave him

that spouse,

and he married them, Adam

and Hawa

See how interesting?

Who did that? Allah.

The creator, the halic of insan.

The creator of human beings.

He established marriage.

And if you go into the Quran in

Surah Rum chapter 30 verse 21 and time

doesn't permit me to go into it, which

he speaks about and from from amongst my

sign, the

that he has created your spouse so you

could find peace.

And he has created love,

and he established rahma,

peace,

love,

mercy.

Three things that we don't see amongst people

nowadays.

We show peace,

tranquility,

love, and mercy.

And he created this wife, Adam

What? The wife. Marriage.

So as soon as he created Adam,

when he taught him, it was about a

wife and marriage.

Today, do you know what is the statistics

of marriage?

You know in America, go check it out.

A lot of you are university graduates.

Over 40%

of children

born in America

are born out of marriage.

That is 10%

short of the 50%

of people.

What is that telling us?

Human beings, how far we are going away

from what god established for human beings. And

I'm not talking about building a masjid here.

I'm not talking about giving charity and building

a book, buying a book. I'm not talking

about building a school. I'm talking about people's

own happiness.

Our own happiness.

Where we find sakinah, peace,

love,

mercy. As Allah says, He has established this

for husband and wife, and He has established

marriage, so husband and wife can come together,

have peace, love, harmony, home, family, community,

society, a happy world.

And over 40%

of children are born in America out of

marriage.

That is a sickening thing.

And do you know Muslims are following very

very

fast? Contrary to the sunnah and the Quran?

You see how? It doesn't matter sisters, you

wear hijab

and a tight jeans, I don't know what

you're trying to prove, but anyhow, brothers you're

growing a long beard, but you're not setting

up the lifestyle according to Quran and sunnah.

You're praying salah, but we're not living according

to Quran.

What are we running behind? You're praying salah?

You're running behind the dunya?

Our own happiness? Woman, children, family?

Do you know Iceland?

Iceland

has

the

highest statistics of children

born out of I mean, out of marriage.

Approximately

67 to 70%

of the children born in Iceland.

And I I when I thought the people

were not marrying, I thought it's because the

place is too cold.

But then I realized they're making more children,

but out of marriage. So maybe,

you know, we live in a sad world.

Over 2 thirds of the population

having I mean, of children born out of

marriage,

what God has written.

You would check the Bible, you check the

Torah, you check the Psalms, you check the

Gita, you check all the religious scriptures.

How God has designed man

and woman

and put us together, and how to live

for our benefit, for our happiness, for our

success, for love and peace and harmony,

and that we're not even doing right, whether

it's for our own peace and desire and

happiness.

What else we gonna do right?

We a lot of us, I tell you,

we pray only because we want to know.

We don't pray because we thank Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala. It's because we want more from

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

Go check the statistics. Over 2 thirds?

Do you know what was the marriage the

the age

bracket of marriage in the United States of

America

30, 40 years ago?

1918, 1920

years. Most of the people used to get

married at that age.

What?

18, 1920.

You remember that was to be the Muslim

master also?

16, 17, 18?

Now the statistics of the United States of

America of marriage is not 28, 29, 30.

What's really going on with people? You're marrying

after you live half of your life? Then

you got 30 more years for 60?

We going

mad?

Is something wrong with human beings? They don't

even know how to live?

How to enjoy our happiness that God has

created for us? So if we cannot enjoy

the virtues and the happiness that God created

for us in the Quran, the bible, and

the Torah, and the scriptures. And I say

this to all human beings.

I tell everybody this.

We are far away from the path that

God has really designed for us. A lot

of us are very selfish. It's only about

going to mosque and we don't pray because

we don't want to go to *, and

we want to ask for more money and

more success and more business. It's about thanking

Allah because we're not even prepared to enjoy

our own life the way God says to

enjoy.

And that's a serious statistics. And the sad

thing is that Muslim families are also following

that in the hope of dunya, in the

love for the dunya. I gotta do it.