Let's Change Our Mindsets About Marriage* *Episode 241 BENEFITS OF NIKAH (MARRIAGE)

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*Let's Change Our Mindsets About Marriage*

*Episode 241*

*BENEFITS OF NIKAH (MARRIAGE)*     

          

Allah Almighty has placed within every male and female certain base desires and has decreed a permissible manner of fulfilling them. Through these permissible methods one is able to achieve enjoyment from the opposite sex and save oneself from adultery and fornication. For this reason Nikah is considered as “half of Imaan”.

_ Through this Nikah, which saves a person from impurities and forbidden acts, one also achieves and maintains good health, mental peace, stability and harmony, and in fact maintains the lineage and continuity of humankind, etc. There is no doubt in the fact that Nikah is a great gift of Allah. Through it a woman that one was not permitted to look at becomes permissible. She becomes a life long companion providing comfort and company within the home of the husband. Both husband and wife become attached to one another to the degree that each feels the joy or pain of the other.

By having children, they maintain their lineage and further strengthen their bond. 

The greatest factor is that the Sunnah of our Beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is preserved. He has said, “Nikah is my Sunnah" He further says, “Whosoever abandons my Sunnah is not from amongst me (my followers)." Mishkaat

In one narration the Prophet (peace be upon him) says, “To fulfil your base desires (with your lawful wife) is an act of charity.” The companions questioned, "Oh Prophet of Allāh! If one of us fulfils his base desires will he be rewarded for that?" He responded, “If he were to fulfil them unlawfully (in a Haraam manner) would he not be sinful?” They said, "Indeed he would" The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "So if he fulfils them in a permissible manner he will definitely be rewarded!”

In another narration, even spending upon one's own wife and children with an intention of reward is termed and an act of merit and charity. There are many narrations in this regard. They prove that through Nikah countless doors of ibaadah open up. An opportunity to remain engaged in constant ibaadah, year upon year, whether asleep or awake, standing or seated, during the day as well as the night, is provided for both parties. Thus one should thank Allah Almighty for this great gift of Nikah. in Europe and other parts of the Western world, those who are being influenced by their peers or by other factors making them tum away from Nikah and give preference to a relationship that is impermissible, should carefully consider the benefits of Nikah, both spiritual as well as material, and should not prohibit themselves from the great reward that lies therein. They should engage in sincere repentance and choose the pure and correct path.