Saturday, August 27, 2011

POEM TO MY AKHI AND UKHTII

Oh Muslim Brother and Sisters



Do not forget your creator,

Do not forget the one and only saviour,

He gave you life and every favour.

He gave you eyes to see the truth,

To look in the Qur'an is your proof.

Gave you ears to listen with,

To follow the right path is your gift,

Gave you a mouth to speak the good.

To give Da'wat and make people understood.

He gave you a brain to understand,

To control your worldly affairs in your land.

He gave you feet to reach the perfect destiny,

To follow the right path is to hold on to the Qur'anic memory.

He gives you hands to spend plenty of charity,

To the poor, weak, needy family.

He gave you sense, touch and taste,

Or we would be eating garbage waste.

He gave you parents to love, teach and cherish you,

To save you from calamities that could perish you.

He gave you wealth to distribute and invoke Allah's attributes.

He gave you health to practise Islam,

To read the Duas and save you from Damn.

He gave you children to make them pious,

To teach them and save them from the devils, the liars.

He gave you comfort and ease,

A life with such dignity and peace.

He gave you a home so beautiful and spacious,

To hymn to praise Allah the most gracious.

He gave you wealth to spend in need,

A help to a friend in hereafter you will succeed.

He gave you fasting to reform,

To conquer natural diseases till dawn.

He gave you money to go to Hajj,

To purify your soul towards your Judge.

He gave you abundance food to eat,

To give you strength and a prayer to complete.

He gave you a partner to share.

In loneliness, happiness, sadness and

Every situation to care, gave you death as a present,

To meet your Lord the Mighty the Most Pleasant!

IMPORTANCE OF MARRIAGE IN OUR LIFE

Why marry?

Marriage makes an incomplete human being a complete one. It makes him/her a grown up and gives him/her responsibilities whether those responsibilities are to feed and clothe the wife or to assist the husband. Marriage is supposed to take a person out of the hectic lifestyle that one is in and place him or her in an organised environment giving them a path to follow in life and a shoulder to lean on. In short marriage arranges one’s life. In Islam a man cannot have relationships with those he can marry unless it is within marriage. In other words Islam gives the right to a woman to be a wife of a man independant of the marriage relationship the man may have with another woman. This is a key diffence because in the modern era a man is not guilty if he has relationships with a woman outside of marriage but the moment he contracts to treat this woman equally as his wife, he is criminalised for illegal behaviour. This is odd as the current common law does not criminalise the actual relationship of the man with another woman but punishes the solemn promise/affirmation in writing to continue. Any off-spring would be illegitamate as the courts would not recognize polgamy even though it exists and is accepted in behaviour but not in writing. In some senses the increase in divorce rates and re-marriages we see nowadays is in someways a serial version of polygamy!. There are many reasons that support polygamy but Islam limits the practice to four wives and is allowed only when one can be fair to all wives. Polygamy is only mentioned briefly here but as a subject could be read in further detail elsewhere. Please also note that the current Law of the land in this regard should be abided by.

Marriage helps to safeguard one’s imaan (faith) i.e. it stops one from committing such acts by which s/he could be considered immoral. Sins such as intermingling with people of the opposite sex or socialising as it is classed in everyday terms are not considered to be acceptable in Islam, (because it creates immorality and immodesty) even though an incredibly large amount of people will hastely class it as an 'essential' part of one’s day.