Published on 20th March, 2004.

Overwhelming Response for Islamic Pre-Marriage Course
- A Course for the youth held in Bangalore in India

Report by Fasi Abbas Khaiser on behalf of Reliance Public School, Bangalore.

Moulana Zaki Baqri, presenting to the attendees.

The youth of Bangalore gathered in profusion on the announcement of "Pre marriage Islamic crash course", by Syed Moulana Zaki Baqri Saheb organised by Reliance Public School.

It was an excellent opportunity to the youth here to know all about the lasting relationship called “marriage”. Although the academic education in Schools and Colleges teach general moral conducts besides science, technology, mathematics etc., they seldom teach of such a topic which is a necessity for every youth getting married. Neither do most of our parents take the initiative in educating their children about this relationship.

It was a two-day program conducted in July, consisting of a series of sessions each day. After each session, the attendees were given a chance to ask questions relating to the topic covered in the session. Questions poured from the youth as though they wanted to quench their thirst for knowledge, which was untold to them so far.

An attendee asking a question during a question & answer round. 

Moulana started his sessions on topics emphasizing the necessity of "thinking" as it being an essential thing, would help out in building up a strong relationship.

Explaining about the importance of marriage, he stated one of the hadith of Prophet Mohammed ('s):

"By getting married a person protects half of his religion, the other half is protected by his Taqwa".

He covered topics such as Criteria of selecting Spouse, The method of marriage in Islam, Love during the youth, rituals of a bride, Kinds of Responsibility, Dowry and more.

"Knowledge is dead if it is not practiced. We should never consider this as something only theoretical, but rather should put this in practice. By our practice, we should show to the world that we do spread Islam with a peaceful meaning of knowledge, not with a hateful meaning of it" advised Moulana to all.

An interesting quiz based on the sessions ended the course. At the closing ceremony, few of the attendees walked up to the dais, to express their views about the program. 

"This is a good experience I had. I think I've taken a lot with me out of these classes, for my future" expressed one of the youths.

The feedback forms based on the classes, collected from the attendees, conveyed that a need for such programs is very very important and should be conducted at least once every month.

Feedback of attendees showing a strong agreement about the usefulness of the course.

An overwhelming response from the young attendees (With above 92% of them rating the usefulness of the program as Good, Very good & Excellent) shows that this kind of a program was a MUST in their life. Is it that, only the youth here have a need for an educational program based on Marriage? How about our young brothers & sisters around the globe who are still not aware of all the Do’s and Don’ts in Islam regarding Marriage? Will they get educated too?

Somebody should take an initiative to organise such a program in your place.

(May the blessings & support of our 14 infallibles be with them, who would come forward for such a good cause).

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