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Omar Zaid: Taqua of Marriage [email protected]
Introduction & Overview
In the Name of Allah (God), the Most Compassionate and the Most Merciful.
All praises belong to Allah alone, the Lord of all the universes. And may the
blessings and peace of Allah be upon His messenger Muhammad and on all
of his family, descendents and followers.Following a devastating divorce in 1990 I came across a little booklet
distributed anonymously entitled The Seven Basic Needs of Your Spouse. After
reading it I was shattered by my ignorance and angered at the failure of the
many educators who permitted such brainlessness to prosper (I was raised
Catholic). I resolved to put those principles into practice which then began
two decades of pensive contemplations on the institution of marriage. When
I became a Muslim fifteen years later, the transcendent experience crowned
my growing bank of scholarship and experience with remarkable clarity of
vision. Now I was a man on a mission that carried me through middle age
and into early grizzlement as a polygamist with two wives living under the
same roof in peace. Life does indeed begin at forty, and at sixty I can honestly
say this is the best chapter so far. I have ferreted out from these years of
research, connubial failures and recent success, several observations and
conclusions I now share with the reader from a new-found academic perch.
But on a more serious note, and as most cognitive adepts of the present ‘Age
of Harm’ will agree, marriage, civilization as we know it, and genuine
monotheism are under significant assaults by sinister forces I have also
studied at great length and published elsewhere.^1 I therefore pray that this
volume will serve to counter the impunity of this libertarian prosecution on
both sides of the pond and hopefully ameliorate some of the mischief and
mayhem they and their Levantine masters have caused mankind.
I begin with a chapter on the basic needs of each spouse. These are
archetypal constructs intrinsically demonstrated by each gender as naturally
normative by divine design. Such ancient wisdom will be scoffed at by
modern humanists but such mockery is inevitable and even prophetic
because our educational systems suffer a profound absence of gestalt
discernment in light of materialism’s boastful ascent. Hence, the wisdom
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See p. 164: ‘About the Author’