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in their financial standing, similar in their religious dedication, similar in their lineage

to a great degree and so on. But my brothers and sisters, that is called Kufu or Kaffaah.

A person would be Kufu or the verb would be Kaffaah. Remember, it is important for us to follow

that instruction. But some people use that as an excuse to deny a cross-racial, cross-cultural

marriage. Now that's not Islamic because for as long as these people who belong to a different

race, so it's cross-race, you know, interracial marriage, for as long as they've been brought up

in a similar way, say you were both brought up in London, you were both born and raised in New

York, for example, both of you were born and raised in Australia. And you went to the same schools,

you went through the same system, you had the same norms, your parents might not have had those

norms, but you've had them and you've brought up together. My beloved parents, when someone

proposes for your child or your child wants to marry a person of a different race, who's been

brought up within your system. Don't use Kaffaah and Kufu and the lack of similarity to deny them

that Islam has given them. That is actually racist. That's what it is. So if it does happen that

they want to get married and they happen to have a similar sort of an upbringing, education, etc.,

they went to the same schools, they grew up in a similar fashion, they come from the same community,

they had the same community center, they went to the same masjid, madrasa, university, whatever else

it may be. The norms are quite similar these days, so the disparity is not that huge, but where you

have those people who are strictly cultural and the children themselves are also that cultural,

then perhaps you may want to tell them this thing is not going to work. But let's not be racist

and let's understand Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala created all of us and He created us equal. Yes,

we are encouraged to look like the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says at some form of similarity,

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