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Friday Sermon by: Alban Fejza, Online Congregation Director

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Praise be to God. There is no other god except God. The video above shows a monkey “washing” clothes. Now the question is, “Does the monkey understand what he is doing?” How can we know whether the monkey understands that he is washing clothes, or maybe he is just imitating the movements of other people, when he saw them doing the same thing?” Actually, there is a very easy way to know that. You just give him clean clothes, and see if he will wash them. If he will also wash the clean clothes, obviously he does not understand why he is doing what he is doing. He is just imitating. So, he is actually not following the instructions of the humans. He is just imitating. And the difference between true following and imitating is that you understand why you do what you do, and the only way to prove from the outside the difference between following and imitating, is to change the circumstances in such a way that the old reasons do not apply anymore, and if the monkey still does it, he is just imitating, but if he stops because now the old reasons do not apply, then he is truly following.

In a similar way, God distinguishes the imitators from the followers by changing the circumstances. And those who were just imitating will keep on doing the same thing, while those who were truly following will adjust their behavior to the new circumstances – of course, only the parts where the reason for that behavior does not exist anymore.

And imitation in religion is widespread across all religions. For example, the Jews who emigrated to Eastern Europe and Russia, they adopted the Russian warm hat suitable for winter.

Now, their descendant imitators, the Ashkenazi Jews will use that hat, even in warm weather, and there is no reason for it. Why? They are just imitating.

Or for example, have you seen how the Christians carry the cross?

It really has nothing to do with Jesus. It’s how Romans crucified the people during that time, all the who disobeyed the empire. So, unless you are about to be executed by Romans, you have no reason to carry the cross. So, the Christians are not following Jesus when they are doing that, they are just imitating him.

Or for example, you might have noticed how some arrogant Muslim men carry a dark ring in their right hand.

They are imitating Muhammad. But Muhammad had a reason for it. He needed a stamp when he became a city leader in Medina, so that people can verify which letters were sent by Muhammad, and to keep the stamp constantly with him, he considered it reasonable to keep it as ring, kind of like a key fob for your keys, which helps you not to lose your keys. But, almost all the leaders of any city during that time had a ring stamp. But, nowadays, what are Muhammadan imitators doing with that kind of ring? They have no reason for it just like that. They are just imitating. Muhammad had a practical reason for it, while they have no reason for it. And this is not just imitation, but also arrogance, because they are acting like kings, when they are not even servants.

Or for example, you might have noticed some imitators of Rashad Khalifa. They will spend a lot of time counting things in the Quran. Well, Rashad counted the letters because he was a research scientist. That was his professional specialty and strength. Why the people who are not research scientists try to count other things? Imitators. Just imitators. Bad imitators. Are they going to waste their life counting, when they could spend that time to worship God? Actually, the Quran calls the counting a sin in verse 18 of chapter 70. Had Rashad not discovered the Mathematical Miracle of the Quran, his counting would have been a sin, and he accepts that he was possessed by the devil when he was doing that. He said that he was in Satan’s pocket when he was doing that. But God redeemed him. So, unless you discover something new, and that’s almost never, your counting is a sin. The counting is only justifiable by the discovery, just like counting of money is justified at the moment of trade, but counting your money when you are not trading or doing business is a sin. A very minor forgivable sin, but still a sin.

Here is an example of dumb unnecessary counting. On a post on Facebook on the 18^th of April 2022, saying that Tomorrow will be 4/19, the 19^th of April, and because the Basmalah has 4 words, and 19 letters, he is hoping for something big tomorrow. Really? And you know what, eight people liked this post. And we hereby officially can declare these people dumb. Officially dumb. Dumb intellectually and religiously, both. Dumb intellectually because any person who is willing to use his mind can easily conclude that there is no logical connection whatsoever in that message, and dumb religiously because by claiming that there is some kind of deeper meaning in human made months. April is human made. It’s a fake month. Ramadan is a true month, but April is a fake month. If you think that you can find some kind of sign within that, you are actually trying to compete with the Mathematical Miracle of the Quran, and this is religiously a contradiction, because here in the cover of this book Rashad wrote about the Mathematical Miracle that it is “impossible to imitate.” But this guy is trying to imitate it. So, he is a liar. He is against Rashad’s message. If a miracle could be repeated and imitated, it wouldn’t be a miracle. Just think about it. If a miracle can be repeated, was it really a miracle? Miracles are only proofs because no one else can repeat them.  So, all these people who are trying to imitate the Mathematical Miracle of the Quran, all of them are against it, because if you managed to repeat it, then it was not a miracle, and if you did not truly repeat it, then you are just an imitator who does not know what he is doing. And these people are causing harm, because how are we going to invite people to verify that the Mathematical Miracle of the Quran proves that the Quran is from God, when the next thing he can tell us is “I saw something similar on Facebook, so what’s the big deal?” So, this is why it is wise to stay away from these imitators. They will only hurt the cause.

So, let’s not be imitators. Let’s be followers of the truth from our Lord, chapter 47, verse 3

Followers of the religion of Abraham. chapter 2, verse 135.

Followers of God’s revelations, chapter 2, verse 170

Followers of the straight path, chapter 6, verse 157

Followers of God’s guidance, chapter 20, verse 123

Followers of the best path, chapter 39, verse 55

Friday Sermon by: Alban Fejza, Online Congregation Director

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Praise be to God! There is no other god except God. As you might remember, in one of the Friday sermons, I talked about what the appropriate age of marriage for each man should be to a corresponding age of the woman, supposing that they are equal in every other aspect. This promotes fairness between the parties, but it reduces the possibilities of whom can marry whom, which is a bad thing, because then much less people would be married, because they would expect only the appropriate age. God provides a solution for this in the Quran, by mentioning dowry. One of the reasons for the dowry, is to make it possible to marry across all legal ages, simply by adjusting the dowry amount to such a high or low level which would be acceptable to the party which gains less from that marriage. So, the dowry traditionally was a substantial financial amount which the groom would give to the family of the bride or the bride, as consolation for their family separation, and they would adjust it in accordance with what the difference between the age of marriage was, until the party which did not win as much from that marriage got satisfied, and this adjustment would be quite large. So, the dowry increases the possibilities of marriage, which helps promote marriage in a variety of different circumstances without worrying that someone is going to be taken advantage of. And the variation between one dowry to another dowry would be maybe to a hundred times larger or smaller, if not more, in cases where it was clear that one party was not as good as the other party, for whatever reason, in rare circumstances. The dowry would be negotiated with the guardian of the woman.

According to the Quran, women are always under the guardianship of someone else. If they don’t think that they are under the guardianship of someone else, that’s because they are under the guardianship of the state, even if they don’t know it. They would be savaged either by animals or be abused by other men, in the past, if some other man did not protect them, if they were not under the guardianship of someone. Today, they would be abused by other men, if they were not under the guardianship of another man or under the guardianship of the state. Whenever states fail in any region, usually during wars, the women always end up being abused and unprotected. So, for most educated women today, at least for those who are older than let’s say 25 years old, the state is their guardian. And for a man to marry a woman, he must seek the permission of her guardian – whichever guardian applies, either the state, or her father, or her adult brother).

So, if the woman is independent, (especially financially or residentially independent), which is in most cases, you can ask the permission of the state to marry her. And this simply means that you will do the marriage in the official state offices, a state registered marriage. Basically, you have to register the marriage in the appropriate state office, and if the state registers it, they automatically gave you permission to marry her. They officiate the marriage; they do the marriage.

Now, because the dowry is a financial agreement between the potential husband and the guardian of the potential bride, in cases when the state is the guardian, the dowry is actually already paid through taxes, through which the financial and legal safety of the women is guaranteed, and even potential protection by state authorities in extreme cases. If anything happens to her, she has the support of the state to guarantee her safety, alimony, and her rights. So, for independent women, this makes the dowry kind of obsolete, or already paid. In this case, the dowry should be just a symbolic gesture, of something which a man gives to a woman, to symbolize their marriage, maybe a ring, or bracelet, or a necklace, or things like that, but not necessarily anything financially substantial.

Now, if the woman is still under the guardianship of another man (like a very young woman who still relies financially and residentially on her father, for example), in that case the dowry may  be discussed between them. However, discussing the dowry is actually not mandatory in the Quran. The dowry is mandatory, but discussing the dowry is not mandatory. So, what happens, if a couple wish to get married, and they never discuss the dowry. Well, if they get married in state official marriages (registering their marriage with the state), in that case it is automatically implied that that was the dowry, and the dowry has been fulfilled, through the state. Now, there are cases when the people might not register a marriage for whatever reason, which is their right, if both parties agree, in that case a financial dowry applies, even if they did not discuss it. These days, many girls or families of girls would rather say “No”, than ask for a dowry, in a culture where money is exchanged only for evil deeds of this nature, and it is understandable if none of the parties never wish to bring this topic up, and especially because this topic these days would be discussed with the woman herself, having become sufficiently educated in school to have received her father’s implicit agreement that she can make her own decisions, it will simply ruin the romance, if you discuss it with her, and not bring any substantial benefits to the situation. And I can understand all the women of today, if they would rather say “No”, than ask for a dowry. So, let me help all the young men of today with this unromantic situation. Let me “take a bullet” on your behalf, by telling you what is the amount of dowry which you should give her, even if you never talked about it, even if she never requested it, you still have to give it to her, if you did not register the marriage with the state.

So, let’s calculate it.  Before we calculate it, let show you where I base my calculation on. In verse 28:27, God informs us how big the dowry was which Moses gave for his wife. And it is interesting that it is expressed in “years of labor”. And economists know that money is just a representation of the value of labor. It has no value on its own. It’s just a piece of paper which you can not eat, and the value of money is not comparable across different times and places. But, the value of labor is comparable across times, which means that we can take what Moses gave, and still use it for today, without any need to adjust for inflation, and purchasing power parity and things like that. And of course, because he was Moses, he agreed to a fair amount. But, we will have to make adjustments to apply it to our times. So, according to verse 28:27, Moses agreed to work for the dowry for 8 years. However, Moses lived 120 years, and we today live 70 years, so let’s adjust it. 8 times 70 divided by 120, equals to 4.6 years. We also need to make another adjustment. Moses in that story had free housing and basic living expenses from his employer, while men today don’t get free housing and basic living expenses from their employer.  Today, usually, only half of your income is left after you pay for housing and basic living expenses, so we should reduce those years by half. So, 4.6 years divided by 2 is 2.3 years. So, if you did not register the marriage with the state, and you did not discuss the dowry with her, then you are in debt to your wife equal to working for 2.3 years of your net income, and giving all that money to her or her family. This is the starting point, and then you make the adjustments from that. For example, if she is more than let’s say seven years younger than she should be for you, double that amount, which is 4.6 years of your net income. If she is more than about seven years older than she should be for you, half of that amount, which is 1.2 years of your net income. If she is a divorced woman, (but of the appropriate age for you), then half of that amount, which 1.2 years of your net income. If she has children from a previous marriage, half of that previous amount, which is about 7 months of your net income. If she is older, divorced, and with children from a previous marriage, that is half of the half of the half, which is about 3 months of your net income. If you yourself are currently already in a marriage and with children, quadruple that, which is about 10 years of your income. This should prohibit polygamy almost always. If a divorced woman with children wants a state registered marriage, she actually got a dowry twice as big as she deserved, in which case she should give back part of the dowry, to adjust it back to the fair level. Anyway, all of these are approximations, not laws.

Oh, and by the way, people have the right to know how much debt you have, before you get married, and it is better to tell them, even before they ask you. If you don’t have debt, you don’t need to say anything, but if you have substantial debt and you don’t say anything, then your partner has the right to consider it a manipulation, because anyone can pretend to be reach with debt. So many young women are fooled today by men with Ferraris, who actually have negative wealth, who have more debt than wealth, and then once they get married, the woman realizes that she will have to work for the rest of her life to help her husband pay his debt. That’s not fair. She should have known in what kind of trouble she was getting into, and vice-versa. Someone might say, but that’s my debt. Well, while you pay back that debt, that will disable you from sharing the expenses with your partner, and indirectly it also becomes their debt.
But anyway, back to the dowry. So, the purpose of the dowry is not to complicate marriage. It is to enable marriage in all kinds of circumstances and still keep it fair. One of the additional benefits of the dowry is that because it is a substantial amount, a man would never propose marriage, unless he was really serious. A lot of girls today will reject a boy, simply because they have no guarantee that he really means it, because so many men will tease girls and insinuate such a situation, without even having decided themselves. So, because she can not be sure whether he really means it, she would rather say “No”, then get disappointed later. However, if she knows for sure that every submitter who proposes to her is going to guarantee his proposal financially, “put his money where his mouth is”, or guarantee his proposal in the legal state offices, then she will know that he is serious. And especially with young couples, in most cases, the dowry for a woman means that the man gives her everything he has. He must be serious.

If the woman wants both a financial dowry, and a state registered marriage, that is unfair to the man, because she is getting double dowry. And if the man wants to get married, and does not give her the appropriate financial dowry, neither does he want to register the marriage with the state, then he is being unfair to the woman. The only way to keep it fair and safe for both parties, is to either involve the state, or use an appropriate financial dowry as a guarantee for the woman. And by the way, she has the right to choose whether she wants state guarantee for her marriage, or a financial guarantee for her marriage. It should not matter to the man, if he is honest.

At the same time, let me remind you that, in today’s circumstances, where all financial aspects are intertwined, where you never really know who has what for sure, because of state interference, then in most cases the financial dowry is just going to complicate things, because no amount of finances can really make it fair, when ultimately the state will interfere with what can happen even after marriage. So, the most reliable option in democratic states is to just register the marriage with the state, and that is the dowry. If the man still wants to give a nice gift to his wife or potential wife, that’s voluntary, just like Moses worked for 10 years, even though he had agreed for 8 years.  And a state registered marriage is win-win situation for all parties. So, don’t overthink this issue, because the challenges after marriage are bigger than the challenges before marriage. So, just make sure that you are willing to keep the marriage, and be a good and fair person during the marriage. You don’t need to be exceptional. Save your exceptionality for God. Just be normal and fair, and make reasonable efforts to continuously deserve the marriage. It’s a privilege, not a right, and you should enter it with lifelong intentions. Think of yourself being old. Would you still befriend that person, if he or she was 70 years old? Would you still have a friendly enjoyable conversation with them, and help each other, especially in bad situations? This should help you decide, and the most important thing is to find someone who will not divert you away from the cause of God, but will actually support you and encourage you in the cause of God. The other things are details.

Friday Sermon by: Alban Fejza, Online Congregation Director

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Praise be to God. There is no other god except God. I’ve been working on a video clarification about Marriage and Divorce for quite some time now, and for some time I also thought that I might deal with the topic of “Dating” in that video, but because I could not explain this topic without including my personal opinions, I had to remove it from there, but it’s an important topic anyway as a Friday Sermon, especially for the youngsters of today. So, let me get to the point. To help marriages or engagements and decrease the chances of divorce or breaking up the engagement, dating is allowed before marriage or engagement, but only what I call “Dating for marriage”. What I mean by this is that marriage has already been mentioned or discussed before going on that first date, even though no decision for marriage was made. Something like, “We would very likely be good marriage partners, but just to be on the safe side, how about we meet for lunch or dinner next week, or something like that?” And if the idea and the arrangement for such a meeting comes from a third party, it will count as charity for them. But anyway, if you don’t know what you are meeting for, don’t go, and this is true for all kinds of meetings. I don’t like it when people call me and they don’t tell me what for. “Can you come here, I would like to talk to you about something?” No, no. First you tell me what you want to talk about, and then I’ll decide if it is worth coming there. Because anyone invited on a date has the right to know why he or she is being invited. And dating without having mentioned marriage already is a pointless dating. And also if you mention marriage before the first date, the unrighteous women will conclude that you are too desperate for mentioning the word “marriage” so early, and refuse, which is a good thing, while the more righteous women will give you a chance, if they think that there are reasonable chances. Also, don’t be so direct that it makes it awkward, but find a way to let her know that the ultimate purpose is possible marriage, and not something else.

And by the way, the one who makes the invitation always pays. This is true for any kind of meeting, not just dating. If the man is going to make the invitation, which is in most of the cases, then he should pay. Your idea, you pay. Or maybe a man or a woman are going somewhere anyway, and the other person invites them for an additional journey where they can meet, then the inviter pays for that additional part. Now, maybe a man is already sure that he wants to marry a woman, so he already tells her that he wants to marry her, but she can not decide, and she wants to meet a few more times to help her with her decision; in that case, she pays. She needs those meetings for the decision, not him. So whomever invites or recommends a date is the one who pays. And this payment will count as charity to atone for the sin of inviting someone to a date.  By the way, dating, when done correctly, is not a sin, but inviting someone to a date is a very small sin, but you pay for that sin, you atone for it, as soon as you give them coffee, or lunch, or dinner, or something similar. The charity during dating overcomes the sin of the invitation for a date. And from verse 31, in Sura 12, we can see that dating is not a sin, but the invitation for dating is a sin. Verse 31, in Sura 12 says:

When she heard of their gossip, she INVITED them, prepared for them a comfortable place, and gave each of them a knife. She then said to Joseph, “Enter their room.” When they saw him, they so admired him, that they cut their hands. They said, “Glory be to GOD, this is not a human being; this is an honorable angel.”

Now, Josef is not to blame for that meeting, and neither should the women who were invited be blamed for it, it was the woman who made the invitation who committed the sin. So, the invitation for a date is a sin, but you pay for that sin as soon as you give lunch or dinner or coffee, or whatever is appropriate in that date, and that counts as charity which overcomes the sin, and in some cases it surpasses the sin because good deeds are rewarded ten times, while bad deeds are punished only once.

And we can see also from the case of Moses how the invitation when combined with giving, it is overcome by the giving. Verse 28:23 says, “When Moses reached Midyan’s water, he found a crowd of people watering, and noticed two women waiting on the side. He said, “What is it that you need?” They said, “We are not able to water, until the crowd disperses, and our father is an old man.”

So he approached them, which is an unscheduled date, but he paid for it. The next verse says, “He watered for them”, which is a charity.

And by the way, the father of the girls, also being a righteous man, in the next verse, when he invited Moses to a meeting, he also covered it with payment. The next verse tells us that the father of the women invited Moses to pay him, but really, I think he was interested to meet him, but he guaranteed the invitation with charity. I am quite sure that he offered Moses a very nice lunch.

Oh by the way. Paying with your parent’s money when you are very young, that is irresponsible dating. If you need your parent’s money for a date, that is a sign that you also need your parents to chaperone you during that date.

And by the way, I love the culture of the Western Europe and U.S. in so many ways, but they are so bad in this issue. I can not count how many times I have been invited in their work parties, or similar work meetings, or things like that, and they told me, “Bring food with you.” Really? If I am going to bring my own food, I would rather invite people in my own party. And it’s not a matter of money. It’s a matter of principle. If I invite anyone to anything, I always pay. I very rarely invite to things other than organized religion, but when I invite, I pay. It’s a matter of principle, and I would expect all of us to behave in the same way. The person who is being invited should get everything for free, including travel, if that is a significant issue. So, the same applies to dates.

And now let me mention the most important rule of dating: No sex before marriage. That’s clear in the Quran. Also, dating must happen in a public place – in a restaurant or coffee shop or some kind of outdoors trip, or in town centers, or similar public spaces, but not in someone’s private basement, or something like that. And remember that the word privacy and darkness, and private house, are the same root word in the Quran, which means that you should not meet in nature after sunset, or in city spaces during the night without city lights, but it’s ok to meet in city circumstances during the night, if the city is lighted.

Also, let me tell you something as a statistician. According to one of implications of Central Limit Theorem, one of the rules of thumb is that 30 data are enough to get a rough idea about that whole variable. So, 30 dates are sufficient to get a rough idea about the person. You can do it with less, but if by the time you meet a person 30 times, you still don’t know whether he or she is the right person for you, you will probably never know. If more than 30 dates happened, and you still did not get married, someone is taking advantage of someone. Also, I would guess that one phone call online counts as one tenth a date, my guess, and a video chat online counts as one third a date, I guess.

And now, here is friendly advice: If you are about 90% sure as a man, or 80% sure as a woman, just take a chance, and decide for marriage. This life is short anyway. You will never be 100% sure. And these percentages will probably reverse after marriage. The man will be 80% sure that he made the right decision, while the woman will be 90% sure that she made the right decision, which is why I am suggesting a higher level of willingness for men, because they are more likely to change their mind after they decide, and lower percentages for women, because women have slightly less love in their heart compared to men beforehand, partly because part of their love is reserved for their children, but mostly because true men are built to lay down their life for their friends, if needed. In the Bible, in John 15:13, Jesus says, “No one has greater love than this: To lay down one’s life for one’s friend” And this rarely happens with men, and it is even more rare with women. You hear about men sacrificing themselves in wars and in different kinds of dangerous situations, and it comes from their deeper love, not from their strength, and women will generally sacrifice themselves only for their children. So, because women are never 100% sure (in situations where the man and the woman are equally attractive), if the woman says “OK” to the idea of marriage or dating, that means “Yes”. “No” means “No”, but “OK” means “Yes”. And women, feel free to say “OK”. Why embarrass yourself with a “Yes”, when you can just say “OK”. And the answer “I’ll think about it” should always be an acceptable answer, both for men and women. And by the way, both potential partners should always leave an open “escape door” for the other, if they choose to take it, without any negative consequences whatsoever, and without any pressure. Oh, by the way, bad women, when they realize that before marriage a man loves them more than they love him, they will use it against them and try to manipulate them and hold them down, which really only works for a short while, and because of the emotionally vulnerable situation, the man will not forget it, at least in his subconscious, and after marriage, if they get married, he will, out of nowhere, express disrespect for her when she least expects it, and she will not be able to understand why, and he might not know why, but it will happen. On the other hand, good women, when they realize that a man loves them more, they will compensate that small difference with slightly more respect towards him, and the man will remember this and respect her more after marriage.

And of course, during dating, proper dressing applies, just like during other times. I mean, both men and women, you should try to present the best version of yourself to encourage marriage, but within what the Quranic rules allow, and within what the circumstances of the date might call for.

One more thing. In the meantime, while you might have dated someone, with the clear purpose of marriage, you are still single. There are no such things as girlfriends or boyfriends for submitters. That status does not exist for believers. You are either single, engaged, or married. The other descriptions are not acceptable. You are not reserved for anyone, and no one is reserved for you, until the moment of marriage, and feel free to change your mind anytime until you consummate the marriage. So, don’t put any other relationship status in your social media, if you choose to put any. If you show any relationship status in your social media, it should be either “single”, “engaged” or “married”. You do not even need to tell people that you are divorced, unless you have kids, in which case, it is better to say that you are divorced to prevent people from thinking that you are an adulterer or adulteress. See, unlike the other sins where confessing them makes them better, the sexually related sins, which include divorce after consummating the marriage, they become bigger sins when you confess them, because they degrade the moral of the society, simply by hearing that the others have done it, which also entices the others to do it, and you are not only confessing about yourself, you are also confessing about the other person, which is an accusation, another sin, and a betrayal of someone who trusted you. So, confessing a sexually related sin or some kind of similar situation from your past will not free you from that sin. It will only add an additional sin.  Of course, if you get caught with proof for adultery, you should be punished, and accept it. So, if you made a mistake with any kind of these sins in the past, never tell your new husband or new wife, or your family, or your friends. It will only make the sin bigger. Of course, you should not lie, but just say that your past private life is your past private life, and you want to look towards the future, and that’s for God to judge.  And it is very important to repent, and never repeat it again.

Also, regarding the marriage proposals as they often do them in the western cultures sometime towards one of the last dates, that’s fine but that has no legal value. It’s not an engagement, it’s not a marriage. It is just a strong indication that the person will agree to marry when the time of marriage comes, but otherwise, it has no legal value, because it did not fulfill the marriage or engagement requirements, which are the witnesses, and the permission from guardians and so on. And you don’t need to take a knee. We kneel before God. Also, don’t embarrass people with public surprises. Don’t be a kid.

And in general, during dating, speak about things maturely. If you know how to be charming, and a person who is fun to be with, fine, but sincerity is the most important thing, and don’t forget why you are dating. The purpose should be marriage, or knowing the person well enough to feel comfortable to agree to marry them.

And finally, let me address the elephant in the room, verse 2:235 which is often used by people who are religiously against dating. The verse tells the men not to meet the women privately unless they have something righteous to discuss. However, dating as I presented it here does not go against this verse at all, because I proposed that dating should be held in public places, restaurants, coffee shops, and so on, and also the verse says, “unless you have something righteous to discuss”, and discussing marriage and things around it is a righteous thing to discuss.

Friday Sermon by: Alban Fejza, Online Congregation Director

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Marriage and Divorce Rules from the Quran

How to Find Your Perfect Marriage Partner?

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