About two months ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Shaykh Faraz Rabbani and Sister Dania Ayoubi on a panel at the ISNA conference in Washington DC entitled Living the Single life: Benefiting from Your Time Before You get Married. It was recorded and I was debating as to whether or not post this video during Ramadan but I figured it probably 
would make more sense to do so now rather than wait til afterward, as during this month of introspection it would serve many of us well to realize that there is nothing wrong with us if we are not married.
More often than not it becomes very hard for a person to make a critical sense as to why they want to be married so badly, but yet they aren’t married for whatever reason. In the short time that I was allotted on this talk, I wanted to convey to the audience that it is hard to deal with the emotions that come from being single and wanting companionship, and how we need to learn to deal with those emotions constructively. Please do share with others if you think there is benefit in it.
Thanks to Fatih Alev from Denmark for sharing the original video. Fatih runs a group called Muslims in Dialogue that focuses on integrating Islam in a European context. You can visit the MID website here and see the original video in its entirety here.
I’ve also posted Shaykh Faraz’s and Sister Dania’s talks as well as our Q&A session below. Be sure to check out Shaykh Faraz’s response to the question on being obedient to one’s parents in the first part of the Q&A at 3 minutes and 15 seconds. The entire Q&A session is pretty good so try to listen to the whole thing.
You can visit Shaykh Faraz’s blog here and check out the online classes that he teaches along with many other notable individuals at Seeker’s Guidance here. I am going to look for an online resource for Dania Ayoubi and update this post if I find one inshallah.
I’m sure I’ll write up something more on this topic in the coming months. Please feel free to share with others
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