Islam
is such a religion where Allah has made available to believers all
solutions to various problems, and it [i.e. Islam] has also taught
man how to live his life.
Despite
the presence of all these divine teachings, but the problems keep
spreading and continue to get worse every day, like I explained to
you in my sermon last Friday on the relationship between
mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and daughter-in-law, on how many
problems arise in a home, between a couple, and how a mother-in-law
should treat her daughter-in-law, without creating problem in a home
and how a daughter-in-law should deal with her mother-in-law. Often,
the daughters-in-law are intolerant and constantly fill their
husbands’ ears [with negative comments against the husbands’
family] to keep them away from their mums and other family members.
Yet when the Quran mentioned the subject of marriage, it mentioned it
in such a way that the subject of pity (Rehem)
is brought up towards the parents of the couple, i.e. the parents of
the husband as well as the parents of the wife. It applies both ways.
So,
in this sense, we must try to reform the society and here too it is
“Ghibbat”
(backbiting) that causes the worst effect.