Before You Become His Garment in Marriage

Do’s and Don’ts for Muslim Women

By: Umm Zakiyyah

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In this timely book, Umm Zakiyyah, internationally acclaimed author, soul-care mentor, and RTT therapy practitioner, draws on her personal, spiritual, and professional experience to offer advice to Muslim women embarking on marriage or hoping for this soul companionship, whether for the first time or after divorce. She also shares details of her own marriage contract, which she has prepared for herself and her daughter.

Topics include acknowledging your own emotional wounding before marriage, recognizing red flags in yourself, being honest about incompatibility, understanding the power of masculine energy, and the beauty of resting in your spiritual feminine.

Umm Zakiyyah says:

By the mercy of Allah, I’ve spent most of my adult life as a wife and mother. After getting engaged at the age of nineteen and married at twenty, I was blessed with the soul companionship of marriage twice and was tested with divorce twice.

Like so many other women, I’ve experienced my share of wanting to marry someone but it not working out, someone wanting to marry me and it not working out, getting engaged to someone and cancelling the engagement, and signing a nikaah contract only to dissolve it before it culminated into full marriage.

The book you hold contains excerpts from my more than twenty years of research, spiritual study, personal experience, and copious notes that I’ve taken on the topic of love and marriage for the Muslim female soul.

I’ve also included in this book my own personal recommendations of a marriage contract outline that I believe offers Muslim women of this generation the best opportunity to preserve both their marriage and their emotional and spiritual health long-term. This marriage contract outline is one I’ve used for myself and am saving for my own daughter for when she is ready for the soul companionship of marriage.