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In the name of Allah, we ask Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala to bless his household, his companions, and may Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala bless every one of us.

Amen.

My brothers and sisters in Islam, it is important for us to know that when we speak about the family unit or we speak about the family unit,

we have guidelines from the Lord of the world, from the very beginning, where the Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him tells us how to choose a spouse.

Now it was easy for me to start off from the birth of a human being because from the point of birth, the upbringing that the parents afford that particular child will afford.

The child will affect in a very great way the attitude of the child, the faith of the child.

Those are the two primary cornerstones that make up a healthy relationship.

If you want to know whether you will get along with someone or not, you need to see two things.

And this is not only in marriage, in anything.

You need to look at their relationship with their maker. If they have a good relationship with their maker, which is truthful and not hypocritical.

What that means is sometimes you have a person praying five times a day and I see this happening more and more.

You know Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says,

Indeed the salah or the prayer itself will prohibit people from or will prohibit from immorality and evil.

But people are fulfilling salah and still they are immoral and they are evil.

I don't know if you are seeing this. It's because there is something lacking in that prayer.

Perhaps the sincerity, perhaps the genuineness. If you are really concerned about the Almighty, you will be able to protect yourself by the will of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala from anything that would disturb the relationship between you and your maker.

And automatically it would result in you praying. It would result in you abstaining from the prohibitions of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala if I were a person who is constantly worried about the next prayer.

Where do I have the time to sin?

I don't. I read my Salat on Fajr and my mind is on Loha. My mind is on the next prayer.

I read the afternoon prayer, my mind is on the late afternoon prayer.

I read the late afternoon prayer, my mind is on the prayer at sunset, in Maghrib and so on.

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