Domestic Issues and Their Solutions — Page 113
113 tolerance and kindness. T ry to understand one another and adopt righteousness. Allah the Exalted says that if you are kind to each other in compliance with Allah’s Wor ds, your apparent dislike can turn into fondness and you can find good in the relationship because you do not have knowledge of the unseen but Allah has knowledge of the unseen and is the Master of all powers. He will create good for you in it. Hazrat Kh alifatul Masih I (may Allah be pleased with him) said that once he found out that a young man did not treat his wife well and was very rude to her. One day he happened to meet the young man along the way and he advised him in light of the [above] verse. He went straight home and said to his wife that of course she knew how hostile he had been towards her but that day Hazrat Maulana Nur ud Din Sahib (may Allah be pleased with him) had opened his eyes and he would now treat her well. Hazrat Khalifatul Masih I (may Allah be pleased with him) related that following this Allah the Exalted blessed him with four beautiful sons and they lived happily. Allah the Exalted thus grants such rewards if His commandments are acted on in order to gain His pleasure! Therefor e young men who come here from countries like Pakistan etc. and abandon their wives after a few days saying they do not like them or some young men marry girls from those countries because of their parents and later say that they do not like the wife and t hat they had only gone through the marriage