Marriage

Fruits of Marriage:

1. Tranquility
2. Comfort
3. Wealth
4. Hasanat-from charity
5. Help from Allah
6. Business continuity - Son/daughters' duas, etc.

Causes of rift in a marriage:

1. Lack of Patience - Food, snoring,
2. Being stubborn
3. Comparisons of spouse with another

Improving marriage and increasing love between spouses:

1. Increase our patience
2. Do not be stubborn
3. Exchanging gifts - small tokens e.g. flowers, cakes
4. Warm greetings - when spouse comes home, give salam, hugs/ kisses. For a woman to be secured she needs to be touched at least 33 times a day
5. Praising each other
6. Don't compare one to another - e.g. wife to his mother/ sister, husband to her brother/ father
7. Pamper each other with words and actions
8. Help each other at home
9. Exchange kind words and smile - say something good/ kind or be quiet
10. Never argue in front of your children
11. Talk with one another about things which you are not comfortable with
12. Fast together
13. Pray together
14. Do something together - play with one another
15. Respect each other
16. Apologise at time of making mistakes
17. Suprise each other - break the routine, be creative

As shared by a brother on http://www.ramadan.tv/live_stream.php at 12.30 pm today on Ramadan Reminders programme.