Real Beauty Marriage in Islam

Your Life is a journey You’re on a journey. The journey is life. The destination is Paradise or Hell. The path you take on your journey will determine your destination. The length of your journey is not fixed; it will vary for each individual with some arriving at their destination in their youth whereas other will reach old age before they arrive. Yet one thing for certain is that everyone WILL arrive at their destination.

[QUALITIES CONDUCIVE  TO A HAPPY CONJUGAL LIFE] [Dowry] The fourth quality is that her dowry should be small. The Messenger* of God declared that “The best women are those whose faces are the most beautiful and whose dowries are the smallest.” 38  He enjoined against excessiveness in dowries.” The Messenger* of God married one of his wives for a dowry of ten dirhams 40  and household furnishings that consisted of a hand mill, a jug, a pillow made of skin stuffed with palm fibers,” and a stone ('iliyy); 42  in the case of another, he feasted with two measures 43  of barley;” and for another, with two measures of dates and two of mush  (sawiq). 45

[QUALITIES CONDUCIVE  TO A HAPPY CONJUGAL LIFE] There are eight qualities which render a conjugal life happy and which must be sought in the woman in order to assure the perpetuity of the marriage: piety , good character , beauty , a small dowry , ability to bear children , virginity , [good] lineage , and she should not be a close relative .