Pause to reflect

 

Consider the following ill-effects of sinning and of being heedless to the remembrance of Allah: loneliness, not having your prayers answered, developing a hard heart, a lack of blessings in wealth and health, being prevented from knowledge, humiliation, anxiety, and being tested by evil companions who pollute your heart. The above-mentioned results follow sinning just as plants grow after being watered.

 

If these then are the effects of sinning, the remedy lies only in repentance.

 

Be gentle with womenfolk

 

(And live with them honorably)                       (Qur’an 4: l 9)

 

(And He has put between you affection and mercy.)     ( Qur’an 30: 21)

 

The Messenger of Allah (bpuh) said:

"Take care and be good to women, for they are restrained (and bound) to you."

 

"The best of you is the one who is best with his family, and l am the best of you to his family."

 

The happy family is replete with love, contentment, and the fear of Allah, the Exalted:

 

(Is it then he, who laid the foundation of his building on piety to Allah and His Good Pleasure, better; or he who laid the foundation of his building on an undetermined brink of a precipice ready to crumble down, so that it crumbled to pieces with him into the Fire of Hell. And Allah guides not the people who are the Zaalimoon (cruel, violent, proud, polytheist and wrong-doer).)                                    (Qur’an 9: 109)