Yassir Fazaga – Marriage From An Islamic Perspective

			Hello, Salaam Alaikum My name is Yogananda.
		

			This soul
		

			expresses thanks to Allah. So the soul wants to ask the one question that is the concept of the
marriage
		

			at the point of view of Allah, and at the point of religious point of view and the philosophy of
point of view in Islam what it is
		

			very quickly, Islam sees marriage as a contract,
		

			meaning that there is a proposal in the contract, there is an acceptance of the proposal in the
contract in the presence of witnesses with a Mahara that is given, once that takes place, then the
man and the woman are seen as a husband and a wife. However, Islam makes the following point. And
that is, the whole concept of marriage is made so simple in Islam, if two people want to be
together, then Islam says be together and what the marriage license does, or when they come to the
Imam, what that does is that it adds an ethical value to the relationship and that is how marriage
is different, you know, when people have relationships, there is an ethical value, because the
		

			marriage license is nothing but a documentation of the event that so and so, person on so on. So,
date in the presence of so and so, person, given the dowry of this have agreed to get married, it is
really documenting the event and that is it. However, it is not in the legal value, that that
marriage license is important. Rather, it is in the ethical value, that marriage is important. For
example, when a husband is marrying a woman, what do they say? They say that I am marrying you,
according to the book of Allah and according to the Sunnah of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Now I have attended some non Muslim weddings in the state. I really don't know what people say here
		

			in India, but we will in the States, what they do is that they exchange vows, what they say, you
know, is I promise to love to honor to nourish to respect this person, and till death do us apart.
Undoubtedly, these are beautiful words, you know, when you give the person that you know, your
assurances, I promise to love you, to honor you, to respect you, to nourish you, and what have you.
These are beautiful words, however, they believe in Islam is this, when you are saying that I am
making a law, my witness that I will take care of this woman. It is not what we do in public that
matters most. But what happens when we are by ourselves alone. So you tell the woman Don't worry, I
		

			made a lot of my witness that I will take care of you. And the woman is saying back, don't worry, I
am making a lot of my witness that I will take care of you. So this way there is that added ethical
element into the whole concept of marriage. Also an Islamic is not enough that the technicality of
marriage are followed. And that's the end of it, when we have this and we have that it just makes it
legal. It does not does not necessarily make it moral, it does not necessarily make it happy. And
that is why I said earlier is marriage and Islam is not about two people getting married to be
happy. It is about two people getting married to make each other happy. And that's a very important
		

			point
		

			to make some speaks of marriage and he said that the point of marriage are two things, said that
Lita, schooner Ella said that Allah has prescribed it is mentioned in sort of the room, sort of room
I forgot the verse surah number, but what happens is Allah speaks and says
		

			omit it and have a comment, Rob, of His Signs is that he has created you of dust. And then the
following verse said, omit it and Haleakala coming
		

			on off his size is that he has created mates for you. And then the third verse says the following
verses, woman at home are somewhat well up, and often sighs, the creation of the heavens and the
earth. Now remember this, the sign of marriage is mentioned before the sign of the creation of the
heavens and the earth. That Allah Subhana Allah is telling us this is indeed a very important
matter. Allah says in the port Anya, Latina, alpha will Latina
		

			or you believe fulfill your vows, fulfill your pledges, if you made a promise, make sure that you
carry it on. And the best vow that we made. The best pledge that we made is our pledge with Allah
Subhana Allah that we worship none but Allah. And the second most important one is the contract of
marriage.