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her with absolute perfection. You must pay the
price of the goods you wish to possess.
The parents-in-law’s home is a kind of training and
testing ground in which the girl must be willing to
learn, to adapt and to prove her mettle. She must
leave behind her the fairy tale existence of her
parent’ s home and enter the realms of reality. The
bride who does not grasp these imperatives will
most likely be a failure both as a wife and as a
daughter-in-law. It is the girl who is prepared to
look the hard facts of life in the face who will make
her marriage a resounding success.
NOTES
1.
An-Nasa’i,
Sunan, Kitab an-Nikah,
5/135.
2.
Al-Haythami,
Majma‘ az-Zawa’id wa Manba’ al-
Fawa’id, Kitab al-Manaqib,
9/210.
3.
Ibid., 9/209.
4.
See, Qur’an, 12:70.
5.
Al-Haythami,
Majma‘ az-Zawa’id wa Manba‘ al-
Fawa’id, Kitab al-Adkhar,
10/122.
