WOMEN IN ISLAM

MARRIAGE IN ISLAM by needlessly suffering in her in-laws’ home, putting herself through psychological torment unnecessarily. Such conflicts are the price of one’s own lack of awareness, which naive girls often attribute to their in-laws. Such a situation is invariably aggravated when her parents attempt to intervene. In a clash between the weak and the strong, it is always the former who suffers, and of course, within the bonds of marriage, it is always the woman who is in the weaker position. Parents do not realize the damage they do to their own daughter’s life by waging an unending war against her in-laws. The parents-in-law’s home is a kind of training and testing ground in which the girl must be willing to learn, to adapt, and to prove her mettle. She must leave behind her the fairy tale existence of her parent’s home. It is the girl who is prepared to look at the hard facts of life in the face which will make her marriage a resounding success. BREAKING THE CONDITIONING MOULD When a man and a woman come together in marriage, it is the joining of two different personalities. Each is different from the other in many respects. They are both conditioned to their various ways of upbringing and lifestyle. When a child is born, he is conditioned by the environment he grows up in. The environment inside the home and outside moulds him into what he eventually grows up to be. This stays with him throughout his life. As a result,