In one of his Friday sermons Huzoore Anwer said the following when explaining the causes of marriage break ups:
“One cause of the conflicts is that women have little tendency to stay content. Rather than spending according to their husbands’ wealth, they instead look at their friends and neighbours who are better off. They spend and then demand more from their husbands. Gradually the situation worsens and women show great impatience. In spite of being mothers to two or three children, their impatience and lack of contentment, and more than anything else their lack of trust in Allah the Exalted–because the minds of such people are only filled with worldly thoughts–also leads to their belief in Allah the Exalted to diminish. With no belief in Allah the Exalted, they do not turn to Him and do not pray to Him. Thus, one thing leads to another. How can those who do not turn to Allah the Exalted be trusted? Such women destroy their family life and their demands to separate from the husbands start and then, as I just mentioned, one ill leads to another.”
(Friday sermon delivered on 15 August 2003 at Fazl Mosque, London. Published in Al Fazl International 10 October 2003)