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Assalamu alaikum. This one is going to be very interesting.

So I delivered a short talk about how we should not reject a proposal that comes for our child

from a guy, from a person, from a boy or a man, who perhaps might not be so wealthy

and maybe he might not be earning so much.

But if he's responsible and he has deen and a khlak,

he has a good level of connection with Allah and he has a good character and conduct

and the two, the boy and the girl, wanted to happen, let it happen.

I received an email from a sister telling me,

you've been unfair to single sisters who are rejected simply because they don't have jobs.

It took me a moment to understand it, but that was so correct.

There are people who reject a girl who is being looked at for marriage purposes

when her deen is good, her character is good, she comes from a decent family

simply because she doesn't have a degree or she doesn't earn that much

because they want the earnings or they want a 50-50 set up

or they want some form of material gain from this particular sister.

What does Islam say about that?

Well, you're totally wrong. You're actually making a wrong decision.

You're pegging it on something wrong, Subhanallah.

And I do know that life is a struggle in many countries

but that doesn't mean you reject a brilliant person simply because,

oh, what amount of money are they going to bring into this home?

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