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“O People! Fear your Rabb, Who has created you from one 
soul and created from it a partner. And spread from them many 
men and women. 
Fear Allaah, through Whom you demand your mutual rights. 
Indeed Allaah watches over you.”
[Surah Nisaa, Aayat 1] 
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“O you who believe! Fear Allaah Ta`ala and speak properly, 
Allaah will correct your actions and forgive your sins. And he 
who obeys Allaah and His Rasool, has indeed attained a great 
success.”
Amongst the numerous Aayaat in the Qur`aan Majeed, Nabi 
(sallallahu alayhi wasallam) has selected these few Aayaat 
specifically for the occasion of Nikah Khutbah. There must, 
most certainly, be some wisdom in this. If we contemplate 
carefully, then we will see a common point between all these 
Aayaat, and that is Taqwa. All these Aayaat begin with the 
injunction to 
“Adopt Taqwa”
. Only an ignoramus will ask what 
the connection between Taqwa and a Nikah is. 
As for that person who understands well the intricacies and 
complexities of marriage; one who knows what marriage is all 

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about and has experience in such matters, will know full well 
that a sound and trouble-free union depends wholly on Taqwa. 
Taqwa is imperative for a happy union and for the couple to be 
able to fulfil each other’s rights. The relationship between 
husband and wife is an extremely delicate one. There is no 
other such partnership that exists. All their innermost feelings 
and aspirations, etc. are laid bare to each other. 
A person is able to conceal his/her innermost feelings and 
conditions to others, and mix and communicate in without 
letting on one’s true disposition, but when it comes to husband-
wife relationship, then all the true and inner feelings and habits, 
etc. are exposed. One cannot hide one inner-self forever. In a 
marriage union, one is bound to expose one’s true self sooner 
or later. If the union is devoid of Taqwa, then living together 
becomes difficult. 
One wife undergoes countless difficulties which will never be 
brought before any court of law. Her many complaints, which 
leave alone a court, will never even be brought before some 
close relative of hers. 
Similarly, the husband is faced with many problems which 
neither he nor anyone else can solve. He will have to face and 
‘live’ with it in this ephemeral abode. 
Besides Taqwa, both of them have no other solution to their 
problems and complaints. 
They are both a trust unto each other and they will each have to 
answer to Allaah Ta`ala for that trust. In this world, they will 
have no one to answer to and may do as they please, but the 
Day will come when they will stand before Allaah Ta`ala and 
answer for every little right which had not been fulfilled. The 
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reality of this fact, is what we call ‘Taqwa’. The reality of this 
makes a person realise, even in his isolation, where none can 
see him. 
Our beloved Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) desired that 
when a man and woman accept each other as life-partners and 
before they begin their journey, then this reality must dawn on 
their hearts, so that the feelings of affection they feel for one 
another is not merely a temporary thing which expires in this 
world. He desired that their affection be nurtured under the 
shade of Taqwa, that it be purified of any ulterior motives and 
that they lead lives of preferring the one over the other.
It is for this reason precisely that Nabi (sallallahu alayhi 
wasallam) chose the Aayaat which mention Taqwa, which form 
the basis.” 
Summary 
1). 
The Khutbah and