A friend once told me,

"My marriage was fixed, but I broke it off."

I asked, “Why did you break the engagement?”

He said, “My father was ill, and my in-laws came to visit him, but they didn’t bring anything—not even fruits or any money. My father said, ‘If this is how they are today, imagine how they’ll behave in the future.’ So I broke the engagement.”

I asked him, “Brother, do you know what their financial condition is?”

He replied, “They are poor people. They work hard and barely manage two meals a day.”

I said, “Then my friend, if you knew about their poverty, do you also realize what must have happened to those parents after you broke the engagement?

Do you know what that innocent girl must have gone through, being rejected just because of her family’s poverty?”

Dear friends!

Today, if an engagement breaks on the girl’s side, people start gossiping—“Maybe something is wrong with the girl.”

But if a boy’s side calls it off, he proudly says,

“She wasn’t my type. I left her.”

Hey ignorant man! If she wasn’t your type, then you should not have agreed in the first place.

And if you didn't want to marry her, you should have declined respectfully—silently.

Who gave you the right to insult her, spread rumors, or point out flaws in that girl publicly?

God forbid—if the same thing were to happen to your own daughter, how would you feel?

For God’s sake, don’t commit such cruelty to daughters and their families.

To all the young men out there—never leave a girl just because she comes from a poor background.

Don’t play with her emotions.

Remember —

A woman is the sacred being through whom we are brought into this world.

She is the one at whose feet Paradise lies.

She comes to us in many forms: sometimes as a mother, sometimes a wife, a sister, or a daughter — but she is always a woman.