“And of His signs is that He crated spouses for you from yourselves...

“And of His signs is that He crated spouses for you from yourselves, that you may repose in them, and He has set between you love and mercy; verily there are signs in this, for a people who reflect.” A spouse must be the cause of peace, not the cause of agitation and anxiety. The aim of marriage is not often only satisfying the sexual instinct, but the aim is mostly reaching to a spiritual and bodily tranquillity.

This holy verse refers to another part of the extroversive verses which are in a stage after the creation of man.

It says: “And of His signs is that He crated spouses for you from yourselves, that you may repose in them…” And since the continuation of this relation between spouses, in particular, and between all human beings, in general, needs a heartily and spiritual attraction, next to the above statement, the Qur’an adds: “…and He has set between you love and mercy…” For more emphasis, at the end of the holy verse, the Qur’an continues saying: “…verily there are signs in this, for a people who reflect.” It is interesting that the Holy Qur’an introduces the aim of marriage as peace and tranquillity, and here by applying the Arabic expressive phrase: /litaskunu/ (that you may repose) it has implicitly stated many subjects.

Similar to this meaning is also mentioned in Surah Al-’A‘raf, No. 7, verse 189. Verily the existence of spouses with this special quality, which is the cause of tranquillity of their lives, is counted one of the great bounties of Allah, because these two genders are complementary of each other and each generally causes the mirth, fruitfulness, and development of the other, so that every one of them is imperfect without the other.

And it is natural that there should be such an honourable attraction between a being and its complement. From this statement we can conclude that those who turn away from this Allah’s way of treatment have an incomplete life, because one of their developing stages has stopped, (except that some particular conditions and a necessity truly requires that one remains single). However, this tranquillity is from the point of both body and spirit, and from the point of both individual and social.

The sicknesses, which happen to the man’s body because of the abandonment of marriage, are not deniable. Also, the lack of spiritual equilibrium and the psychological uneasiness, which the single persons are faced with, are, more or less, clear to everybody.