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Monday 21 March 2016

Do Not Delay Nikaah by Mufti Ismail Menk

Do not delay Nikaah [Marriage] unnecessarily. Once Nikhaah is ready. The two parties are happy. Get the Nikkah done. So that any relation that happens between them thereafter, happens in a way that is permissible. Sometimes people say ‘No my daughter is engaged.’ Brother 3 years later your daughter (She’s engaged). Brother 3 years have passed. She had 2 abortions in the process do you know that? I’m not joking. I’m serious.

My parents! you don’t know what we know. They come to us for help. When they cannot talk to you. I know. We cry when we see the children of the good people sometimes people we know! And they come to us you know what. “I have this problem, That problem.” “But sister you are engaged to the man. How could this have happened!!!”
“My father told me you cannot marry now. You are still studying.”

Allahu Akbar. May Allah forgive us. Ameen.
Brother and sister open your eyes. See what is going on. Ask the people what is happening. If you think we are not living in an era of hyper sexuality. You are dreaming. You are living in a dream world. We are living in the dirtiest society up to this age. There has never ever been, a more hyper sexual society that ours. Believe me everything out there is about sex. And I am saying this because I have to fulfil my duty as a scholar of Islam. To explain to the people what is going on out there and how we are heading in the wrong direction. Because we are living with blinkers. We don’t even know what’s happening. Ask your children in the universities. What’s going on. If you have a good link with them they will inform you. Ask them. Ask what is happening in the malls or in the shopping centers or at the work place.

You can be the best and the most pious. Yes, if Allah has granted you protection. You will always be protected; May Allah grant us goodness. There are people amongst us and I would like to hope, That the bulk of us seated here pure good people by the will of Allah. You know how difficult it is to remain on that path. You know how easy it is to sin. Today it is easier to sin than to abstain from it. It is easier to abandon your hijab, than it is to don’t it. It is easier to leave your Salaah, than it is to fulfil it. That is because the environment has made it so difficult to engage in that which is correct. But my brothers and sisters. This is why I say do not delay Nikaah. It’s not just my statement, it is the teaching that has come to us from the best of creation.
Don’t delay it [Marriage].
And at the same time do not make it difficult in any way. We already spoke about the Mahr [The Dowry] or whatever else it is. Either way don’t be too demanding and do not become a person who really makes it though on their sons or daughters to get married. Because in that particular case we will be held accountable in the eyes of Allah [SWT]. Why is that you as a parent did this to your own daughter? You doomed her. You punished her. And this is what you did to your son. You made him leave the Deen in totality brings me to one example, Living example:
“There was a young boy whose father was being so tough with him that he wanted to marry someone who was ready to revert [From non-Muslim to Muslim]. So his father told him:
‘No, Not over my dead body. What am I going to tell my friends and society, my brothers and my sisters?’
Brother ‘izzah (honor) is from Allah. Your status is from Allah. If you had embraced this, it was going to be much better. So you can explain to your friends and family ‘Look I tried my best.’ but today’s society? Sometimes the children are doing their own thing and we have to try our best to make the most of what it is and to guide them the best as possible. And we will see how best they can manage. Instead of that this father chose to say “Over my dead body.”
“So what did the son do? He asked for help from some of the scholars.”
And sometimes there is a limited amount of help you can actually offer because if a man is being stubborn. You cannot really win.
“So after sometime. He converted left the fold of Islam and gone.”
Why? because to him [Father] the child was lost. And the father is still proud of his action.
“I don’t mind if he became a non-Muslim. But at least nothing happened against my will.”
And he told his family members you know.
“Your children if they want to do the same thing, you should also have engaged in this type of action.”


How? The man and women were ready so I had an opportunity to address this young boy. And when I spoke to him [Boy]. He told me something that is really a question of the age. When I say a question of the age. I mean sometimes the mind starts asking these questions.
He [Young boy] said, “You know, this woman is such a good woman that I married, she has so many good characters and conducts, she told me I am ready to do anything. I [Boy] explained to her the little that I know about Islam and she was ready and then what happened is when my father and my parents said ‘No’ and everybody disagreed,”
He [Boy] says “My mother did not really mind but she has to follow what my father says. So after sometime, they [Girl’s parents] questioned me. Her parents to say that they were all ok for our daughter to enter the fold of Islam. Now if she not going to enter the fold of Islam. Then why don’t you enter in our faith?
So He [Boy] said, “Yeah, it makes sense. If they refuse I will not refuse. You people are not refusing.”


So He [Boy] said that is what made him turn.

Now look at this. The young boys of today; this is the logic that they are using. They will not tell you Islam is correct and Islam believes in all the previous Messengers and Islam believes Allah is one. Even the father perhaps doesn’t read Salaah [Prayer] correctly but he was proud with his action.

May Allah[SWT] forgive that man.
Ameen

Really, we tried really hard but to be honest with you. It is only Allah who can bring people back. That’s why I say it is foolish sometimes you may lose your child totally. Rather you lose them 20%.

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