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So a lot of you aren't married and you'd like to be.

And so we're announcing.

No, I. No, and there's a lot of, you know, look, there are families that are very conservative,

there are families that are not as conservative.

You come from religious backgrounds. Some of you don't come from religious backgrounds.

But the fact that you're here in an audience like this one means that you care about Islam.

And even if you want to get married, you'd like to do the right thing.

And maybe you're interested in somebody, maybe you're already talking to them,

maybe they're here with you, I don't know, you know, but you're not married yet. So I wanted to actually, first of all, accept a reality. The reality of it is we're not living in righteous times, right? The Muslims, unfortunately, are dating. They are going out to dinner. They are chatting it up late at night, whatever it is they're doing. And it's happening, it's become a reality. And we have to deal with that reality.

Our religion does not accept something that's wrong and so I can't endorse something

that's wrong.

No, we don't have the right to because this dean is bigger than us, right?

We are in submission to Allah's principles.

But at the same time, there are practical,

this dean is also practical. Like like it gives it doesn't give people

idealistic solutions it gives them realistic solutions this dean at every

step I start study this dean and any principle in this dean I come away with this dean is so practical.

It takes into consideration the realistic temptations of people, their tendencies, their

tendencies, their temperaments, their situations, their difficulties,

Allah did not send Islam to angels.

He sent it to you and me.

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