Don't worry about global population collapse

Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by seventhtiger on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:33AM (#37723318)

It's not an obligation in the sense that it's not strictly mandatory.

But it is beyond encouraged. Any faithful Muslim believe that marriage is half of faith.

“When a person gets married he has completed half of his religion, so let him fear Allah with regard to the other half.”

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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by catlover76 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @12:03PM (#37727241)

It's strongly encouraged, yes. But not mandatory and not obligatory, which was the erroneous claim to which I was responding.

Are you Muslim? You realize people don't take "half of faith" literally, right?

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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by seventhtiger on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @10:27AM (#37752435)

Yes I'm Muslim. They do where I am. Calling marriage "completing half my faith" is a very common expression. Why wouldn't they take it literally?

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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by rayiner on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:00PM (#37772910)

I used that at my speech in my brother’s wedding, and the aunties loved it.

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