Marriage or studies?

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Bhai, In Mohammad pbuh’s time, life was different and his directions and advice was based on his time. Back then, there was no MIT aka Makkah Institute of Tech, or Madina school of economics, or Jiddah center of Medical research.

Let alone Girls, even most of the boys didn’t have much to do beyond goat hurding, or doing a bit of dukan dari.

Thus 1400 years ago, it was logical and sane decision to merry off girls and boys as early as possible.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) the times have changed.

And thus more opportunities have opened up for women that they can potentially decide about delaying their wedding plans and continue on with the studies.

It is a hard decision, but one could decide based on age of woman in question.

If she is 18, then she has good 7 to 8 years for studies.

However if arki is asking this question about a girl who is 28, then the answer is that she should get married.

Islamic point of view aka view of Mullahs in this case should be ignored. They don’t know much about today’s life.

Life was different? Was his advice just for that time and that TIME only? If you say YES to that question, there is no further discussion since you have your mind set on it.

But on the other hand if you believe that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)'s message was for ALL generations until the day of judgment, then the marriage advice STILL STANDS, even more so in this day and age.

Let’s not even get into the details of gender issues and what each gender has to face individually.. That’s a whole another discussion.

One thing, many women will agree, that as a woman gets older, it’s harder for her to have children or even raise them. Life1 is a good example, where you see cases of single women in their late 30s even 40s not married. I don’t want to generalize here but I find some cases are due to the pursuit of higher education / jobs and ignoring/putting marriage off for the “future”.
just my twocents.