BEING SINGLE IS BETTER THAN EARLY DIVORCE

ISSUE CONCERNING SINGLE AND EARLY DIVORCE 

Praise be to Allaah and blessings of Allaah be upon His Messenger and Chosen Prophet.

Many young people get married very early, only to get quickly divorced for a variety of reasons, emerging from the whole experience bitter and emotionally hurt, with painful marks on their psyche that take a long time to heal.

Many who have a child from
such a marriage have to endure acrimonious feuds with their exes over child custody and alimony, and thenceforth face the challenges of being a single parent.

They are left with many regrets, many painful memories, and much disdain if not outright hatred towards the institution of marriage in general.

It often takes young divorcés several years to heal from their first bad experience, and become mentally ready to get married again.

It could be that your being single, which is a painful trial of patience in your eyes, is a blessing in disguise that is acting as a barrier between you and worse calamities and adversities.

Perhaps all your earnest supplications for getting married, about which you might be wondering why they are not being answered by Allaah, are actually averting from you graver problems and pitfalls that you are not even aware of.

Perhaps your single status is a great blessing, but in a way that only Allaah knows, and you know not.

So rejoice that you are still single and desirous of getting married; that you are not a bitter divorcé who is sexually frustrated yet adamant about never getting married again.

May Almighty Allaah provide for unmarried brother and sister a good spouse.