Importance of Nikah in

Islam
By Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood
TO MARR
Y
is a tradition of the Prophet (pbuh)
Surah Nisa
4.1
Surah Nisa
(4.1)
 O Mankind !
Revere your Guardian Lord
Who created you from a single person
and
Created, of like nature, his mate
and from them
Scattered countless men & women
And, from them, scattered
countless men and women
 • 36.36
GLORY TO GOD,
WHO CREATED
IN PAIRS
ALL THINGS THAT THE EARTH
PRODUCES

AS WELL AS

THEIR OWN HUMAN KIND

AND
OTHER THINGS
OF WHICH THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE
• Wujood-e zan se hai tasweer-e kaayenaat mein rang
isee ke soz se hai zindagi ka soz-e daroon

THE FEMALE GENDER

MAKES THE LIFE
MEANINGFUL !

SHE IS THE
CONSCIENCE KEEPER
OF THE SOCIETY.
 Surah Nisa (4.1)

O Mankind !
Revere your Guardian Lord
Through whom you demand
your mutual rights
and
Revere Him in respect of
The wombs that bore you !
God ever watches over you
Surah Rum 30.21
Surah Rum (30.21)
 And among His Signs is that
He created for you mates from
among yourselves,
so that you may find repose in them.

He has put between you

affection and mercy.
Verily, in that are indeed signs
for a people who reflect.
Surah Rum (30.21)

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 Surah Fatir 35.11

God has made you in pairs

Surah Hud 11.40 & Surah Alm’minoon 23.27

Noah's Ark

God said:
Embark therein, two of each kind ,
male and female.
Surah Noor 24.32
Surah Noor (24.32)
Surah Noor (24.33)
 Surah 24:32
For getting married help those
who are single,
the virtuous ones,
male and female.
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If they are in poverty,
God will give them means
out of His grace:
For, God encompasses all,
and he knows all things.
Surah Nisa 4.19
Surah Nisa (4.19)

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 O Believers !
Live with your spouse
on a footing of
Kindness and Equity.
If you take a dislike to them,
it may be that you dislike a thing,
and Allah brings about through it
a great deal of good.
Surah Baqarah 2.187
Surah Baqarah : Ayat 187

"... They are your

garments and
you are their
garments..."
Surah Noor
24.33
 Surah 24:33

Let those who find not the

Wherewithal for marriage

Keep themselves chaste,

Until God gives them means
out of His grace
Said the Prophet (pbuh)

If you marry
A pious and righteous woman
Who fears God,

She will respect you,

She will be affectionate with
you,
She will help you to get closer to God.
 From the star he borrowed some glitter,
From the moon the scar in it's heart.
From the night's ruffled tresses he pulled out some
black hair.
From the lightning he took its flash;
Chastity from the houri,
And, warmth from the breath of Jesus, the son of Mary.
Then from God he took a pinch of sublime unconcern,
Took humility from the angels
And, self abasement from the dew.

All these ingredients he dissolved in

The water of the fountain of life,

From the Grand Throne the compound received the

name 'Love'.
Surah Shu’ra 26.74
 25:74

Our Lord!
Bestow on us
from our spouses
and our offspring
The comfort of our eyes