Marriage
The Best Pleasure in This Life
Shaykh al-ʿUthaymīn explains that the best enjoyment of this worldly life is a righteous wife. A good woman protects her husband’s honor, wealth, and children, and organizes the home. Seek a religious spouse, as she brings true lasting happiness and success.
Shaykh Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn:
Then the author cited the ḥadīth of ʿAbdullāh ibn Amr ibn ‘Ās that the Prophet said: “The worldly life is enjoyment, and the best of its enjoyments is a good woman”.
The worldly life is enjoyment, meaning: something which is enjoyed like how a traveller enjoys his (traveling) provision, and then it finishes. The best of its enjoyments is a good woman. When Allāh gives a person the success to marry a good woman in terms of her religion (righteousness), and her mental capacity, then this is the best enjoyment of the worldly life because she will preserve him in regards to his secrets, wealth and children, and if she is good in her mental capacity also, then she will organise things properly in his (her husbands) house and in regards to nurturing her children.
If he observes her, she is pleasing to him and if he is absent, she preserves him (his honour) and if he entrusts her with the children she does not betray him. This type of woman is the best enjoyment of the worldly life and for this reason the Prophet said: “A woman is married for four reasons: (1) for her wealth, (2) her status, (3) her beauty, (4) her religion (practise of Sunnah). Earnestly seek for a religious woman, so that your hands may be dusted”. Meaning: take this type of woman’s hand in marriage, for she is certainly the best type of woman that a man could ever marry. A religious woman –even if she is not stunningly beautiful, her endearing character and practise of the Sunnah make her beautiful.
So earnestly look for a religious righteous woman so that your hands may be dusted (i.e. successful in your search).
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