A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Back when I was at university, there was a guy who was part of some kind of weird political Muzlamik organization. (Muzlamik is a made up word – it means kinda’ sorta’ tryin’ to be Muslim or Islamic but not really).
And, one day the Muzlamik political guy got really clever.
When the UK and the US had just gone to war with Iraq, all the students on campus (including the vast majority of the Muslim students), joined the “Stop The War” campaign and organized the 2 Million man anti-war march in London.
But for some reason, this particular character didn’t like the way we were all going about it – campaigning side-by-side with all those lefties. Something had to be done about it.
So he very intelligently stood outside the student mosque, holding up a sign and handing out flyers that said – and I kid you not :
“Don’t Stop The War.”
And then, in smaller print underneath it said something like:
“…Except through Islamic means.”
Which was as perplexing and mind-boggling back then as it is now.
Anyway, it didn’t work out great for that guy, because unfortunately for him, a number of students at the university at the time were actually Iraqi and had had family members who were brutally killed in the war.
And I remember on one particular Friday, one particularly angry Arab man literally chased the Muzlamik man out of the mosque and down the street. And it looked like if he got his hands on him, he would have brought the Iraq war to the streets of Manchester University.
Anyway, the reason I tell you all this is to explain the bizarre subject line of today’s message:
“Don’t Pray To Get Married.”
Now, unlike my politically misguided acquaintance, there a method to the madness and a logic to the looney nature of today’s message, which is this:
If you pray to get married, I firmly believe you will get married.
You think that’s a success?
If so, it’s because you haven’t seen the vast number of terrible marriages and divorce cases that I’ve helped people get through, in my career as a professional Muslim relationship coach.
I don’t just want you to “get married”.
I want you to get married to your OPTIMAL partner.
So if you’re going to spend this Ramadan praying for something, then pray for this:
Ask Allah to marry you to your “Optimal Partner”.
What I mean by that is: pray for the one man who would be the best possible husband for you, out of the billions of people on earth today – and for whom you would be the best possible wife (or vice versa if you’re a guy).
The truth is, it requires no more effort for Allah, the Most Loving, to marry you to your optimal partner than it is for Him to marry you to any old person.
And it’s no more effort for Allah to give you a blessed, happy marriage full of contentment and spiritual connection than it is for Him to give you a terrible marriage full of arguments and fights.
Because I firmly believe the prayers we make during Ramadan happen, I also firmly believe it behooves us to be very mindful and conscientious about exactly what we’re praying for.
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