As Atifa was researching Kuwait's marriage scholarhip that I told her about, she came across this article, ِIs Celibacy becoming a curse to Arab society? by Yahya Al-ous."...the crucial question is: What is the percentage of men and women who have chosen, by their own preference, a celibate life over a married life, and what are their reasons for this? The answer to this question is elusive, as many young Arab men and women state that marriage is no longer the essential thing that it was for their mothers and fathers, and that they have chosen a single life for many reasons. This may be a reflection of the extent of the effect of Western societies upon those of our own without our youth being consciously aware of it."
I'm going to relate this to not just Arabs, but all Muslims, and especially those in the West. Muslims are already a minority in the west, but we are growing rapidly. I'm not sure about the US but, in Europe, the population is actually declining. This is due to less and less people getting married, and those that do get married have very few children if any at all. On the other hand, for Muslims it is very much reccomended to get married and have children. I think that one day Muslim will become the majority in the West if non-muslims continue to not have children. But unfortunately it is apparent from the article that today's youth are taking on a more western attitude that marriage is not nessesary. This indeed is a crisis.
We must all do what we can to end the crisis!
