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255 standards of virtue. When girls will enhance their standards of virtue considering it as a benchmark for matrimonial match, they will also tr y and seek those boys who have higher standards of virtues. Compatibility is in the standard of piety and righteousness being the same. It cannot be that a villain, a thief and robber says that he wishes for a pious and virtuous wife who abides by righteou sness. It should not be assumed that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) considered men to be pious and thus told them that they all were very pious and were touching the high standards of piety therefore they should seek a pious woma n. He certainly prayed for the person [in the Hadith] because he must have known about his piety. However, he also imparted a matter of principle and told men that they too should become pious and then marry pious women. If they were not pious and were emb roiled in bad practices how could they seek pious wives? Indeed, it is a pious man alone who will seek a pious wife and thus man and woman will abide by righteousness and focus on establishing their relationship and raising pious children. Attention has be en drawn to the fact that they both should uphold virtues so that a pious generation ensues; a generation which would create a beautiful society which would abide by righteousness and a family which would abide by righteousness.