Can Muslims Use Apps to Find a Marriage Partner?

So, in today’s digital world, what are your thoughts on, you know, using online platforms or apps to find a potential partner?

That in fact is one of the prime questions nowadays because, you know, an app in a traditional, you can say Islamic context, the aunties would, would hook us up to get married, right?

• Exactly.

But nowadays, people are, you know, more isolated. And how do you meet the right person to get married?

Embracing Technology With Caution

So if that’s what has come to, no harm in using one of the online platforms, and of course there are better, better ones than some others.

Using that to your advantage is key, because we need to be selective and not just get married to anyone.

Getting to Know the Person

We need to be able to talk to the person ahead of time, find out what their goals and aspirations are, to see if they line up with our goals and aspirations.

• Look up, you know, at their outlook in life.
• Are they goal-oriented towards the life hereafter,
• or are they focused on money and the refinements of this world?

Of course, if that’s what we’re into, yeah, that’s the person we wanna find. But if you want long-term success and ultimate happiness for yourself and your future children, then naturally, you wanna find a person whose goal is oriented towards the life hereafter.

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Guidance From the Prophet

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is reported to have said there are four things for which people get married,
what they look for in a spouse:

• Beauty
• Wealth
• Family status or lineage
• Religion

And he said, make sure you look for the religion in the person.
Of course, you can have the other things too, but that would be like icing on the cake, right? But the religion has to be there.

Choosing the Right Platform

There are some websites that attract more registrants who are, you know, oriented towards the life hereafter.

They want to be good religious people themselves, and they’re looking for good religious persons.

Personal Perspective

That’s also my thought, that first for me is the religion, then comes the other materialistic things, because that comes along, but the religion doesn’t just come along. It has to be proper.

Wisdom From Experience

And I wanna get your insights on this as well, because I’m an old man now, and in my days there was no such—

• Internet.
• Exist, right?

So I got married to a girl from my class, and I never regretted it.
But tell me, from your perspective, what are the challenges young people are facing in trying to find the right spouse? And what advice would you give to the Muslim community and young people trying to navigate this difficult terrain?

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Advice to the Youth

I mean, I would say people are always focused on the materialistic things first.

• But for me personally, it’s not that.
• For me, Islam comes first.
• Then I look at how Islamically good they are,
• what intentions they have,
• how good in character and personality they are,
• how well they treat women in their family.

And then comes the materialistic stuff. So my advice would be, get to know the person properly first before moving forward. Then look at the other things like, their status, how good looking they are.

That would be my advice.