The strength of a society depends on the strength of a family, and strong relationships among its members. If the breakdown of the family dominates, the society will lose its most basic support, power and peace. In addition, the family will suffer from weakness, incapacity and confusion since disintegration of the family prevents the human resource from being productive, leads them toward destruction, committing crimes, spreading fear and terror among the people, and makes the social relations of the people weak and vulnerable. All these issues will hinder the movement towards development in the society, cause backwardness, and loss of moving towards harmony and advancement. Therefore, protecting the family from breakdown is the same as protecting the society from various problems that diminish the merit of the society, prevent productivity and development, and turn into destructive and deadly aspect.
One of the undeniable facts among sociologists, training specialists and Muslim scholars is that the family is considered the backbone of the society and foundation of the human life. If the family is based on sturdy religious and moral foundations and deep connections, it will be a strong brick in building a capable nation, or a living cell in the body of the society. In fact, throughout the Islamic history, the Muslim family has been equipped with Islamic values, such as mutual relations, compassion, kindness, love, cooperation, beneficence and collaboration based on piety and goodness, respect for elders, mercy on children, sacrifice, love, good speech and kinship ties. Thus, the role of the family has been very effective in the life of strong and dynamic society. However, the western conspiracies against Islam and Islamic society resulted in the backwardness of the Islamic world, and more importantly the submission of Islamic countries to the western invaders helped the process to get worse. Some of the factors and causes of family breakdown, such as lack of commitment to the religious rules regarding marriage, wrong traditions, and religious ignorance have appeared and increased among Islamic societies, which caused so many difficulties in different aspects of Muslims’ lives.
Keywords: Family, Training, Marriage, Breakdown, Responsibility.
Mr. Ahmad Shah AYOBI, Lecturer of Sharia Faculty of Panjshir Institute of Higher Education – AFGHANISTAN
Mr. Samiullah FAIQ, Lecturer of Sharia Faculty of Panjshir Institute of Higher Education. AFGHANISTAN
Mr. Sayed Naim AHMADI, Professor Faculty of Sharia Department of Islamic Education Panjshir Univercsity Panjshir Province – AFGHANISTAN