عن عبدِ الله بنِ مسعودٍ رضي الله عنه، قال: كُنَّا مع النبيِّ شَبابًا لا نجدُ شيئًا، فقال لنا رسولُ الله ﷺ: «يا معشرَ الشباب، مَن استطاع الباءةَ، فليتزوَّجْ؛ فإنه أغَضُّ للبصر، وأحصَنُ للفَرْجِ، ومَن لم يستطِعْ، فعليه بالصَّوْمِ؛ فإنه له وِجاءٌ»
74 - The importance of marriage
ꜤAbdullāh said:
We were young men with God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) and we had nothing. The Prophet said to us: 1. Young people, whoever of you can meet marriage requirements, should get married. For marriage helps to lower one’s gaze and maintain chastity. 2. Whoever cannot, may resort to fasting, and it will be of help. Related by al-
Bukhari, ; Muslim, 1200.
Related Quranic Verses
Believers, fasting is decreed for you as it was decreed for those before you, so that you may be God-fearing.
(2: 183)
Tell believing men to lower their gaze and to be mindful of their chastity. This is most conducive to their purity. God is certainly aware of all that they do. (30) And tell believing women to lower their gaze and to be mindful of their chastity, and not to display their charms except what may ordinarily appear thereof.
(24: 30-31)
As for those who are unable to marry, let them live in continence until God grants them sufficiency out of His bounty.
(24: 33)
And among His signs is that He creates for you spouses out of your own kind, so that you might incline towards them, and He engenders love and tenderness between you. In this there are clear signs indeed for people who think.
(30: 21)
