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Written by Fethullah Gulen   
Sunday, 15 January 2006
The purpose of marriage is not pleasure; rather it is to establish a family ensure the nation's permanency and continuation save the individual from dispersed feelings and thoughts and to control physical pleasures. Just as with many other matters related to the basic nature that God has given to each being pleasure is a payment made in advance to invite and encourage to marriage.

One should not marry for reasons of dress wealth or physical beauty; rather marry for spiritual beauty honor and morality and virtue and character.

If a couple wishes to divorce the most intelligent criteria are of no use to those who did not (or could not) get married for the correct reasons. The important thing is not to escape from the fire in the home with the least harm but to prevent a fire from ever starting there.

Some marriages based on logic and judgment were initiated by taking refuge in God. They are so sacred that throughout a lifetime they function just like a school and their "students" guarantee the nation's permanency and continuation.

Every union made in the name of marriage but without careful thought has left behind crying wives orphans and those who wound the family's heart.

The soundest foundation for a nation is a family in which material and spiritual happiness flows for such a family serves as a sacred school that raises virtuous individuals. If a nation can make its homes as enlightened and prosperous as its schools and its schools as warm as its homes it has made the greatest reform and has guaranteed the contentment and happiness of future generations.

Nations are based on homes and individuals. If homes are good the nation is good; if homes are bad the nation is bad. If only those who want the best for the nation would first work to reform the homes!

The word home is used according to the people in it. They are considered happy to the degree that they share human values. Yes we can say that people live humanly with those in their home; a home becomes a home because of its inhabitants.

A home is a small nation and a nation is a large home. One who successfully manages a home and who has raised its members to a level of humanity can manage a large organization with a little effort.

A disorderly house means that its people are slovenly and unhappy. The dirtiness disorder and irregularity of houses shops and streets show the local officials' lack of sensitivity.

What is right is liked and esteemed even if defeated; what is unjust is loathsome and disliked even if victorious.

What is right is beautiful in character and the one who is right is sweet. Even if the right falls into the mud it remains pure and upright. Even if the unjust is washed with musk it remains impure and disgusting.

Color and shape may change but essence does not. Name and title may change but character does not. Such changes have and continue to fool many people.

Those who oppresses the weak are defeated even if they are the victors; those who are right are victorious even if they are the losers.

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