The traditional institution of marriage is, sadly, beginning to be perceived as an increasingly difficult, high-maintenance, and burdensome choice, by most millennials. This is because the nature of life activities nowadays affords little time for anything that is not profitable and instant in reaping its benefits.
Everyone instantly desires to see successful results for their endeavors. Time is scarce, and people have little patience for long-term occupations that require drawn-out investment to show results.
Marriage , since centuries, has formed the bedrock of the closely-knit, happy family unit in any civilized society. Islam has endorsed this age-old social custom, and deemed it the only legal means of satisfying sexual desires, as well as, of bringing the next generation of humankind into the world. However, with the hefty costs related to weddings, rising divorce rates, scandalous media frenzies over acrimonious celebrity divorces, and lengthy legal custody battles over children, β today, many young, single people perceive marriage as a risky, taxing gamble.
It is much easier for them to get instant gratification from casual friendships, than to pursue the long, culturally rigid, and economically expensive process of getting married. It is hard to imagine that merely a century or so ago, homes had no television or phone, and information was available only through physical publications that were produced after drawn-out, tedious manual printing processes. One of the most glaring facts about the contemporary information explosion via digital media is the way false stories and fictional scenarios are depicted as alluring realities.
Photographs, videos, films, novels, and other forms of meticulously curated content that appears on our screens, seem more real and authentic to us than the people and situations in our own homes.
