Garments for Each Other — Page 66
66 MARITAL DISHARMONY AND FRICTION (Friday Sermon, November 10, 2006) Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih V (aba) gave a discourse on marital disharmony and conflict in his Friday Sermon. “ O ye people! Fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from them twain spread many men and women; and fear Allah, in whose name you appeal to one another, and fear Him particularly respecting ties of relationship. Verily, Allah watches over you. ” 1 Nowadays, complaints regarding marital disharmony are on the rise. Sometimes, marital affairs and their conflicts result in bad and deeply hurtful situations. At times, coarse allegations are made against women and they are severely mistreated by their husband and in-laws. If it were not for the Grace of Allah, especially in the light of His commandment ‘Zakkir , 2 which me ans to ‘keep on admonishing’ and ‘ admonishing always benefits others’ , in addition to subservience and representation of the Holy Prophet (saw) and the Promised Messiah (as) whose