text: Jalal:  Being single and miserable is better than being married and miserable.  Being "closer to the other sex" is NOT a good reason to marry.  You marry a woman because you love her and want to spend your life with her in a loving, nurturing relationship.\n     Love transcends religion because love supercedes the "do's and don'ts" of religion.  This is because love is a spiritual "element" and is out-going in its expression to your wife, in this case.  Love is patient - merciful - kind  - is not jealous - doesn't boast  nor is proud or rude - love doesn't tally up "wrongs" done against us - love sticks around when everything has run away.  Strict rules are not love but strict rules !  The ideal is to have people want to do things that are right because he or she wants to ... not because he or she HAS to !  This is what I think .