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Nouman Ali Khan

Cultural Barriers to Marriage

Nouman Ali Khan

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Khutbah Reminder Series

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

So one aspect of that that I wanted to briefly touch on in this hutba is getting our daughters married

0:13.6

So this applies in any situation, but this is one thing that I wanted to touch touch with you today

0:19.4

Is getting our daughters married first and foremost

0:22.3

Allah says that the Shari'a that He gave us, the law that He gave us, the purpose of it is to make our burden light

0:27.7

You read Allahu li'u khafi fa'ankum that Allah wants to lighten the burden from you. So cultural burdens

0:35.5

Cultural burdens can be very very heavy, right? Like for example, you have a family and you've got three daughters

0:41.4

Four daughters and you have this cultural standard that the oldest daughter should get married first

0:46.8

Then the next one then the next one then the next one you created the standard

0:50.8

Allah didn't reveal the standard you have the standard good for you

0:54.1

But then the second daughter not the fourth daughter the second daughter is getting a proposal and a good proposal

1:00.4

And you say no, no, no, you got to wait because there's a line get back in line

1:05.6

Right, and so when you do that you that let's look at it from a Quran point of view

1:11.1

Something came that was halal and your daughter wanted it. She had the right to be married

1:17.5

And you denied her something that was halal for her

1:21.6

Even the prophet of Allah was told sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

1:28.6

Why do you make haram what Allah has made?

1:32.3

Halal like even the prophet wasn't allowed to do that in the in the smallest of things

1:37.2

This is not a small thing. This is a life thing

1:40.7

And you can devastate somebody because they wanted to marry a person

1:44.2

They had an emotional attachment. They had the thought of this is the right person for me

1:48.1

And you deprived them from getting married they end up getting married somewhere else

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