What is it about men having more of a reputation for cheating on their wife, than say a woman, particularly in the Muslim World? Yasin commits the most unfaithful act in Muslim culture; he cheats on his wife, with not even a single month of official marriage between the two. Deception is the enemy, the root cause to blame, that Yasin uprooted to seduce Zaghlul. But if the reason for marriage was more intrenched in pure love and commitment; if Yasin's decision to marry was stronger in purpose, than deception wouldn't of been such a potent factor in him cheating on his wife. “If love was straight foward and unchanging, that would be easy to acknowledge. But, when you take a close look at the nature of love and romance, one thing becomes clear: Love creates both happiness and heartache, opportunities and constraints, joy and sorrow.”[1] Is love to blame or Yasin (and his animal-esk lustful needs)? The predatory-like mind set is, in a larger sense, in all of us (after all, we are mammals that have sexual needs just as we have needs for a longing partner). I am not justifying Yasin's unfaithful actions, but I am considering the fact that as human beings, we have strong desires(sexual) perhaps. It is when the Love is strong, and not utterly futile, that a marriage can prosper. After all reflecting back on how the entire marriage was arranged, Yasin's options weren't so fluid; it was a rough and forced marriage influenced majorly by Ahmad.
1. http://www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp?catid=57&id=17251
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You're absolutely right in saying that humans have animalist-esk urges and desires; we have base drives and needs like other creatures, and we are driven to pursue them despite the 'civilized' societies in which we live. But your post also made me wonder if 'deception' might not also be a part of the human condition. There is a certain theatricality, a certain performativity to life that we all intuitively understand. From early childhood we develop a sense of role-playing, of make-believe, of theatrical imagination. We all understand how to lie, how to fib, how to trick our fellow man. It is not the most honorable of human traits, to be sure, but perhaps the propensity to deceive is a part of all of us...
ReplyDeleteThe big question here: What is it, to be human? Are there basic building blocks on which all human life is founded? Or are we each as different, each as unique as we'd like to believe?
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