What should we look in a spouse when seeking marriage?

Planning is a necessity in our worldly affairs and we all recognize it. As they say, ‘if you fail to plan, you plan to fail’. Often a time you find situation where a husband is practicing and the wife is not or the wife is practicing and the husband is not. So when we start like that, this is what we call a time bomb which is about to explode, because it is not going to work. They are going to struggle and cause lot of damage, spiritually and Islamically, and a lot of people are going to be hurt in the process.

As the Prophet (ﷺ) told us, we should choose our spouses based on the deen point. This is the way, the way family starts from, so if you are starting where one is practicing and the other is not, that is a wrong choice or bad, because the action is the evidence of character of the people.

It is not okay that he or she just prays five times in a day, but he or she must be a good Muslim. We should seek for our children, when we are looking for their future, that we want our sons and daughters to marry good practicing Muslims, a good spouse, someone who is implementing the total and complete submission to the one who created you.