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layout: post
title: "Marriage is Half Your Religion"
publisher: "alsalafiyyah@icloud.com"
source: "Fatawa Al-Lajnah Al-Da’imah 18/31, Fatwa no.18121"
hijri: Dhul-Hijjah 22, 1444
lang: en
note: false
category: [fatwas,marriage]
excerpt: "The Sunnah indicates that it is prescribed to get married, and that it is one of the Sunnahs of the Messengers."
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Ibn Baz
      url: /biography/baz/
  deputy_chairman:
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Ibn Abdullah Aal Shaykh
      url: /biography/abdulaziz/
  members:
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah Ibn Ghudayyan
      url: /biography/ghudayyan/
    - name: Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan
      url: /biography/fawzan/
    - name: Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd
      url: /biography/bakr/
---

The Sunnah indicates that it is prescribed to get married, and that it is one of the Sunnahs of the Messengers. By getting married a person can, with the help of Allah, overcome many of the traps of evil, for marriage helps him to lower his gaze and guard his chastity, as the Prophet ﷺ said in the hadith, **“O young men, whoever among you can afford it, let him get married, for it is more effective in lowering the gaze and guarding chastity…”** (Agreed upon). 

Al-Hakim narrated in Al-Mustadrak from Anas, in a marfu’ report: **“Whomever Allah blesses with a righteous wife, He has helped him with half of his religion, so let him fear Allah with regard to the other half.”**

Al-Bayhaqi narrated in Shu’ab Al-Iman from Al-Raqashi: **“When a person gets married he has completed half of his religion, so let him fear Allah with regard to the other half.”**

And Allah is the Source of strength.