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There is a tradition within Islam that ‘marriage is half your religion’. It is within the family that people can learn the twin virtues of taqwa, God-consciousness, and sabr, patience.

For Muslims, the family extends to adult brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts and grandparents and not just the nuclear parents and children.

Muslims take their role within this extended family very seriously. Marriage establishes a strong responsibility not just to look after your husband or wife, but to care for their relatives also. Through this, strong families are built and this stretches out to strengthen the sense of kinship both on a local level and with the worldwide community of Muslims.

Extended families accept the responsibility to look after the elderly, the sick and disabled. In times of happiness, they come together to celebrate and pull together to help with any of the problems that life can present

The family provides guidelines for acceptable behaviour in regard to social life. The term mahram applies to people too closely related to marry. These are the people with whom it’s acceptable to mix freely. Outside the mahram members of the family, social contact is highly controlled. For example, it wouldn’t be proper for a man to visit another man’s house if the wife were there alone. It is only acceptable if one of her adult mahram relatives is also there.