notifications_active Weekly Meshkat-e Noor Session: Thursdays at 20:30 at Haj Reza Mosque
Greetings once again, dear teacher.
Please share your thoughts on why young people are less inclined to marry. How much of a role can economic difficulties play in this? And what solution, in the light of the Qur’an and the Sunnah, might address this crisis?
َّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ
A number of factors have contributed to young people’s declining interest in marriage, including the weakening of religious faith and belief, making marriage difficult, unemployment, poverty, the spread of sexual immorality and permissiveness, lack of hijab, easier divorce, inadequate education, mistrust, and satanic schemes.
Various causes contribute to this problem, one after another, though some are far more decisive than others. These include:
The strategic plans of jinn and human devils
Marginalising religion, faith and ethics
Removing marriage from the realm of worship
Undermining the strength of the family and the status of parents
Making marriage difficult, or making it seem difficult
Unemployment, widespread severe poverty and the housing crisis
Making sexual immorality readily accessible
Organised and unchecked permissiveness
Turning away from ethics and promoting, normalising and glamorising corruption and illicit relationships
Unrestrained immodesty and violations of chastity
The spread and growing ease of divorce, and encouragement of it
Lack of education about marriage and the etiquette of social relations
Failure to clarify the nature and aims of marriage bonds
Unrestrained freedoms
Distrust
Changing tastes
Secret plots and satanic schemes
Food, and contamination in food, medicines, hormones and waves
Unreasonable, excessive dowries
The virtualisation of thoughts, relationships and family ties
The complicity and inattention of the relevant institutions