As the year comes to a close and I reflect on accomplishments for this year, and what I hope to do next year, I can’t help but reflect on my marriage in the same way. Every end of the year, a lot of us make new goals for the New Year (even if we all […]
If I had to sum up my marriage in 2016, I will say that this is the year that I found the most effective ways of resolving issues. The minor squabbles, the major disagreements, resolving them and improving in our marriage depended on these two lessons that I happened to stumble upon. Pray about it […]
I was listening to a lecture by Mufti Ismail Menk, and he mentioned something profound that became the basis for this post – that “taqwa is the cornerstone of a Muslim marriage”. Taqwa (technically taqwa-Allah) is known as the fear of Allah, but some scholars of Islam also describe it as the love of Allah […]
When a man beats up a woman, he is tagged an abusive man and the society either helps the woman leave the marriage, or appeal to the man to behave better. But what happens when your spouse is emotionally abusive? What happens when he treats you less than human and reduces your worth to nothing? […]
