Serenity in the Home
“After marriage, it is extremely important that the couple live with each other with love and affection. For love to exist, trust is essential. In the past, couples may have been poor, but they could trust and depend on each other. Nowadays, couples live in an atmosphere of distrust.
When love exists, you are able to tolerate any bad habits of your partner. In a hadith, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam has said that love of something makes you blind and deaf, i.e. you do not notice or mind its negative points, or rather, they are cherished as positive points.
The opposite of this is also true: dislike of something or someone blinds you to their good points, and in fact, makes their good points look bad.
The opposite of this is also true: dislike of something or someone blinds you to their good points, and in fact, makes their good points look bad.
A home without love is a place of emptiness, where people feel uneasy and agitated. A home with love becomes a place of serenity and peace; the name for home in Arabic is maskan, i.e. a place of tranquility.
It is obvious that the bricks and mortar of a home do not provide the tranquility; it is the the wife that resides within who is the source of peace. Allah subhanahu wata‘alaa has said regarding this quality of a wife: ‘that you may find peace with them’.
So by making the wife a source of sukoon (serenity), the home in which she lives becomes a maskan.”
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