Forced Marriages - That's Messed Up

Nouman Ali Khan

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2016

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A girl should not be pressured, guilt-tripped, or threatened into marriage. And by the way, there’s nothing wrong with a girl being interested in someone and bringing it up with her parents.

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0:00.0	This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. Sorry, Rachthalah.
0:14.0	Oh, I'm Rathalah.
0:15.0	How you doing?
0:16.0	I'm Allah. How do you know, how are you?
0:17.0	Oh, I'm good.
0:18.0	I'd like to talk to you about problems.
0:19.0	Yeah, oh God.
0:20.0	Let me guess it's about sisters.
0:22.0	Yeah, well, it's more about their parents.
0:25.0	I'm getting a lot of stuff about women being psychologically pressured to get married.
0:32.0	Girls being told if you don't marry this one. psychologically pressured to get married.
0:32.9	Girls being told if you don't marry this one or that one,
0:36.0	nobody else is gonna marry you.
0:37.2	I mean, look at you, you're so whatever.
0:40.3	You know, parents putting their kids down,
0:42.2	their girls down and then saying you better
0:44.3	get married right now you better not embarrass us you better not make the family look
0:48.2	bad etc so when a proposal comes you better take it seriously and just do it
0:51.7	and these girls feel just constant you better take it seriously and just do it.
0:52.6	And these girls feel just constantly pressured.
0:56.4	So this is one side of it, and the other side of it
0:58.0	is they can't actually express liking of anybody.
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