My husband and I recently tried to match-make a couple of our friends. Omar
began telling his friend about a really nice woman we knew at 33, successful,
beautiful. His first response was, "So, what's wrong with her? Why is she
33 and not married?" Looking at the 30-year-old man before me, my first
thought was, "I could ask you the same thing." However, the reality
set in that there's a double standard when it comes to the issue of age and
marriage.
Many Muslim women are successful lawyers,
doctors, professors and journalists. They are outspoken and active in their
Muslim and non-Muslim communities. They are intelligent and beautiful, and they
are unmarried. The same women who are ambitious and focused on their academic
and professional success are finding it difficult to find a suitable spouse.
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"God has endeared faith to you and adorned it in your hearts." ~ [Qura'n
49:7]
"Gravitation is not responsible for
people falling in love." ~ Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein not often cited for ideas
outside the realm of science. But I recently came across an insightful statement
formulated by him (the quotation above) that sparked a synapse some where in my
mind about the relationship between religion and love.
If the laws of gravity do not apply to love,
that is, if human beings are not attracted by mere earthbound love, then I am
left with two questions: First, if it's not love that brings two people
together, than what does? Second, if love alone, or at least the popular
conception of it, does not attract two individuals, than what does love pair-up
with to bring human beings into each other's intimate spheres? So the questions
can be distilled to a single inquiry: How do people fall in love? Contrary to
popular belief and Hollywood, falling in love does not happen spontaneously like
a raging forest fire or something. How do I speak with such certainty when
trashing the notion of romanticized love you say? Well, isn't it apparent? Look
around you! When walking down the road, do you see people randomly bursting into
passionate paroxysms? I mean, it's not like your taking the subway one day and
you engage the person next to you just like that. It takes time to develop real
love.
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Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice
everywhere 
