Joy Fun Connection

Playfulness; creating positive experiences; laughter; lightness; maintaining excitement; enjoying togetherness

Laughter and play keep marriage alive beyond duty. When you create fun, you remind your wife why she fell in love. Joy is the antidote to the heaviness of life's responsibilities and keeps the relationship fresh.

Modern relationship guidance
Prophetic example
Sahih al-Bukhari - Book 34, Hadith 50

“Why not a virgin so that you could play with her and she with you?”

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Sahih al-Bukhari - Book 67, Hadith 97

“O Aisha! Haven't you got any amusement during the marriage ceremony as the Ansar like amusement?”

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Sahih al-Bukhari - Book 78, Hadith 157

“the Prophet would call them to join and play with me.”

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Sahih al-Bukhari - Book 13, Hadith 2

“I replied in the affirmative. Then the Prophet (p.b.u.h) made me stand behind him and my cheek was touching his cheek and he was saying, 'Carry on! O Bani Arfida,' till I got tired.”

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Sahih Muslim - Book 8, Hadith 18

“there were with her two girls on Adha days who were singing and beating the tambourine.”

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Jami` at-Tirmidhi - Book 27, Hadith 62

“Abu Dharr narrated that the Messenger of Allah said : "Your smiling in the face of your brother is charity, commanding good and forbidding evil is charity, your giving directions to a man lost in the land is charity for you.”

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Sunan Abi Dawud - Book 43, Hadith 160

“Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) laughed so heartily that I could see his molar teeth.”

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Sunan an-Nasa'i - Book 1, Hadith 240

“He would compete with me and I would with him until he would say: 'Leave me some' and I would say: 'Leave me some.'”

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Sunan Ibn Majah - Book 9, Hadith 135

“The Prophet raced with me and I beat him.”

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Sunan Ibn Majah - Book 9, Hadith 138

“he used to bring my friends to me to play with me.”

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Sunan Ibn Majah - Book 24, Hadith 59

“playing with his wife”

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