My experience learning from Dr Azizan Osman through his seminar. You can’t get wealthy if you don’t have proper connection with your source. In my case, Allah. And the first thing that you need to do, is NOT to do the things that He does not like. Like divorce. What happens when things get tough in a marriage, especially when finances are low? Couples fight. And often they fight about money.
“If you really want to increase your wealth, get married and stay married. On the other hand, divorce can devastate your wealth,” said Jay Zagorsky, author of the study and a research scientist at Ohio State University’s Center for Human Resource Research.
People who remained single had a steady, but slow growth in wealth – from less than $2,000 at the start of the surveys up to an average of about $11,000 after 15 years, according to the study. People who got married and stayed married showed a sharp increase in wealth accumulation after marriage, growing to an average of about $43,000 by the 10th year of marriage.
What does this mean?
Divorce can seriously affect your efforts to get wealthy.
Allah loves those who gets married. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
“When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of his religion, so let him fear Allah regarding the remaining half.”
A good example to prove this is Elliyin Rasif, owner of Elle Zada. Elliyin met her husband at the university they were studying and got married at the age of 23, 2 weeks after they met (taaruf).
“Do what is right. Do what Allah loves and what the Prophet has taught us. Allah will give you ‘rizqi’. Our strategy to get rich is to get married first. It is a simple concept, don’t wait to get rich before you marry. Marry first and you will get rich.”
6 months after they got married, they formed their own company Elle Zada. In 2012, they launched Elle Zada online and sales soared to $50,000 monthly. The rest, as they say, is history.
So the next time you think of divorcing your spouse, stop, and istighfar. It would do more than hurt your faith, it would hurt your bank account too.
3 WAYS TO INCREASE WEALTH IN YOUR MARRIAGE
1. Take care of your parents. If your parents are still living, find ways to make them happy. Call them every day. Visit them for dinner or bring them out. Give them money to spend. Your parents duas are the most powerful way to bring blessings and wealth into a marriage. The more you give to your parents, the more you will receive.
2. Praise and pray for each other. Husbands, pray for your wife. Wife, pray for your husband. Husbands who spend on their wives are looked up to and honoured by their wives. A happy wife is a happy life!
3. Solat and gratitude. How do you show gratitude to Allah? Solat! Express thank and gratefulness no matter how much you make in your marriage because there are others who has much lesser. Express gratitude anyway, Allah gives you more when you shower Him with gratitude. It is His promise and surely Allah’s promise never fails!
And [remember] when your Lord proclaimed, 'If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]; but if you deny, indeed, My punishment is severe.’ “ Quran 14:7
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