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The ache for marriage keeps growing, and I’m struggling to handle it

Assalamu alaikum, brothers and sisters. I’m a first-year uni student in Germany, and honestly, the longing to get married is consuming me. Everywhere I look, there’s fitna-couples and happy marriages that seem like a dream. This feeling swells each day, and I can’t fathom waiting another two or three years. It doesn’t stop me from my prayers or being productive, but after my deen, it’s the biggest thing on my mind. I don’t want a haram relationship and then marry without barakah. Yeah, I’m young, but this isn’t some passing phase-I felt it back in high school too. I want to taste young love, to love and be loved, to grow together and pray side by side. I want the other half of my deen. I’m not about to randomly chat up sisters at uni or slide into DMs, but what’s a real option? There’s a small mosque nearby with a weekly Islamic lecture tomorrow, and I plan to speak to the imam and ask for his help. My family can’t really guide me here-they’re Muslim, alhamdulillah, but they’ve mixed a lot of Western dating into their view of Islam. Please don’t just say ‘work on yourself’ or ‘hit the gym’-I need something deeper. I truly can’t bear this longing much longer. I feel desperate. Make dua for us all.

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