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Marriage is a social institution as old as the human race itself. Islam recognises this institution and accepts it as the basis of human society.
Firstly, Islam does not regard it as a union only for the gratification of sexual lost, but a social contract with wide and varied responsibilities and duties.The reason behind it is that, according to the Divine Faith, a woman is not a plaything in the hand of man but a spiritual and moral being who is entrusted to him on the sacred pledge to which Allah is made a witness. The wife is, therefore, not meant to provide sensuous pleasure only
to the male, but to fully co-operate with him in making the life of the family and ultimately of the whole humanity significantly meaningful.
The purpose of marriage, according to the Holy Qur'an, is therefore, the union of the two souls which are one in essence. Their separate existence is an unnatural state of their being which changes Into the natural state when they are united by marriage and thus are brought close to each other physically, mentally and emotionally.
Both man and woman are the joint heirs of the grace of life, and unless there is a very close and intimate form of companionship in them, they cannot enjoy the true grace of life. "He it is Who created you from a single soul, and of the same did He make his spouse, that he might find comfort in her" (vii. 189). "Comfort" implies much more than a mere sexual gratification. It is not too much to say that the whole conception of the marriage
relation in Islam is charged with spiritual and moral ideas, and must of necessity elevate the status of matrimonial alliance in the individual and social life.
The Holy Qur'an stresses upon the people to marry as it is the most effective means whereby one can lead a virtuous life free from immorality and emotional inhibition. The husband and the wife are for mutual support, mutual comfort and mutual protection, fitting into each other as garments fit into each other.
The Holy Qur'an farther points out that sexual gratification in the married life is not meant only for the satisfaction of the physical lust, but it must be directed to some higher ends. The wives are likened to the cultivable land which are ploughed for sowing and reaping the produce (in the form of offspring) and not merely for carnal
indulgence.
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