YOUTH and SPOUSE SELECTION

A Verse of Qur'an

بِِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِیمِ

﴿وَأَنکِحُوا الأَیَامَی مِنْکُمْ وَالصَّالِحِینَ مِنْ عِبَادِکُمْ وَإِمَائِکُمْ إِنْ یَکُونُوا فُقَرَاءَ یُغْنِهِمْ اللَّهُ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ وَاللَّهُ وَاسِعٌ عَلِیمٌ﴾

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE ALL-BENEFICENT, THE ALL-MERCIFUL

“Marry those among you who are single, or the virtuous ones among yourselves, male or female: if they are in poverty, Allah will give them means out of his grace: for Allah encompasseth all, and He knoweth all things. (24:32)”

Preface

By the translator

The contemporary world is a complicated one full of all sorts of problems. All over the globe, both in the developed and developing countries, different segments of the people face multi-dimensional problems: social, economical, ethical and spiritual. In pure statistical terms, it is particularly the youth strata, in societies everywhere that is most adversely affected. They compose of the frustrated, badly hit strata of the world’s masses, both in the East and the West.

If the East has its typical socio-economic problems, the West too is negatively affected by its own mechanised and industrialised form and metaphysical values.

Briefly, both the societies of West and East yearn and moan under the pressures of problems, either material or spiritual. In the East, socialism collapsed under the terrific pressures of social problems cropping up from its incapacious system. Right now, western capitalism too is showing cracks in its apparently magnificent frame.

At such a critical juncture, the youth of this world stands bewildered, perplexed and horrified, observing the cracking of this system.

The only question boiling in their inquisitive minds is where the remedy and cure lie.

And which system answers the burning