One time we waited at the postman's house before the bride was called not for a while.
She was over.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
You're not too soon.
Dear friends, we are gathering here today in God's presence to witness the marriage of Hashim and Allah,
who stand before us in love, in trust, and confidence.
They ask God to bless their coming together, to sustain them in their years to come,
to rejoice in their oneness, and to share in their joy.
They trust that we will participate with them in their healing and renewing power of love.
There are no ties on earth so sweet and tender, as though Hashim and Allah are about to assume.
There are no vows so solemn as those you two are about to make.
There is no institution on earth so sacred as the home you are about to form.
True marriage is the holiest of all earthly unions.
It should be entered into reverently, thoughtfully, and with a full understanding of its sacredness.
Marriage, to be complete, must first be spiritual.
From an interstate of consciousness you give thought, purpose, implant, and action.
From there comes an outer understanding, making the outer like the inner, peaceful, and harmonious.
Now it's your turn.
Who gets to give this woman?
I do.
In a true marriage, two people approach each other to build a temple of happiness.
The temple was not there before.
Hashim and Allah, you are called now to build it with your best thoughts,
your best feelings, your best acts in devotion and respect.
You are invited now to cultivate the seed of beauty in each other until the full flower radiates itself through your being.
You are invited now to release the supreme values and lights in each other,
cultivating each other's heart as a gardener cultivates his heart.
Only in progressive development can the both of you fulfill your destiny and this is done through love.
Oh, I like seeing that smile.
You hear that word, love, and it just can't help itself.
From 1 Corinthians, love is long-suffering in kind.
Love does not envy.
Love does not make a vain display of itself and does not boast.
Does not behave itself unseemly.
Seize not its own, is not easily provoked, makes no evil.
Love never fails, but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail.
Whether there be tongues, they shall cease.
Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three.
But the greatness of three is what?
Today, your separate lives with your individual memories, these eyes and hopes, are merged into one.
Hashem and Anna, will you bring into this new life each for your own self and for the other the best that you have?
Yes.
As you make your vows, please hold hands.
Okay, I seem I want you to look at Anna while you're going to repeat these words after me.
I take you, Anna, to be my wife from this day onward to join with you and to share all that is to come.
I promise to give you and receive to speak and listen, to inspire and respond,
for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, honor and obey,
to comfort you and remain faithful to you alone until death do us part.
So what token do you have for your sincerity?
All right, may you please produce it for me and give it to me.
Glad they label it woman, the other one man.
Makes it easy.
This wedding ring is the outward invisible side of an inward and spiritual bond which unites two loyal hearts in endless love.
These circles are designed without an ending and so they may speak of eternity.
May the incorrectable substance of these rings represent a love glowing with increasing laughter through the years
and may all good and holy beams upon this earth bless these rings which you give to one another
as a sign of your love, trust, faithfulness, respect and devotion.
Bless, O God, this ring that has sheen who gives it to Anna.
Who wears it? May they abide in peace, living together in unity, in love and happiness.
This ring is the symbol of unbroken unity of married life and such as, as you repeat after me and place this ring
in the correct hand and correct finger so you may begin that part.
Repeat after me, this ring I thee wed.
This ring I thee wed.
That would never be a symbol of my love.
That would never be a symbol of my love.
All right, we're halfway through.
Anna.
Yep.
Your turn.
Thank you, machine.
To be my husband.
To be my husband.
From this day onward.
From this day onward.
To join with you.
To join with you.
And to share all that is to come.
To share all that is to come.
I promise you.
To give and receive.
To give and receive.
To speak and to listen.
To speak and to listen.
To inspire and respond.
To inspire and respond.
For better or worse.
For better or worse.
For richer or poor.
For richer or poor.
Insignis and in health.
Insignis and in health.
To love.
To love.
Honor.
Honor.
And obey.
And obey.
To comfort you.
To comfort you.
And remain faithful to you alone.
And remain faithful to you alone.
And tell death to wish you well.
And to take care of you.
So now, what are you hoping to do?
May I?
This wedding ring being circular symbolizes the spirit of life itself, that eternal and
unchanging essence which has no beginning and no ending, that which was, is, and ever
shall be, this symbol of the unbroken unity of married life, and as such you will repeat
after me when you place it on which hand and which finger. Alright, we've got it. With
this ring, I think you have, that will never be a symbol of my life. Alright, as a closing
blessing comes from the Apache. Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be the
shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth for
the other. Now you are two persons, but there was only one life before. Go now to your dwelling
place to enter into the days of your life together, and may your days be good and long
upon the earth. Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often
of what brought you together. Give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness, and
kindness that your connection deserves. Good frustration, difficult to your fear of self-indulgence,
and only being a symbol of your own kind. Remember to focus on where it might be between
you, not only the warmest seeds in this good, but you can ride out the storms with clouds
inside the face of the semi-new line. Remembering this, that even if you lose sight of it, it's
just for a moment. That sun is still there. And if each of you takes responsibility for
the quality of your life together, it will be more important to fight against anti-light.
I offer this as a closing prayer. Together, let us know that there is one presence. We
give thanks to those of Hashem and I who have entered into this spiritual and holy union
and continue in their guidance of this presence. We know and accept that love is the foundation
for their lives, and they rejoice in the divinity of their own being, and to them ever increasing
wisdom in life, and letting ever-deepening love for each other be expressed in kindness
and understanding. It is much as the sheath and an ant have pledged their faith in each
other and in the presence of this company of witnesses, friends, and family. By virtue
of my sacred stewardship and the authority vested in me by the state of California and
the centers for spiritual living, I now declare them husband and wife. Kiss your bride.
And may I present Hashem and the loss.
Okay, everyone, I'd like to make a toast to the new couples.
God has truly blessed me with a wonderful family, beautiful children, wonderful wife.
Everything in my life is perfect at this point. One of the greatest pleasures a man can have
is to be able to hand his daughter down the aisle. But even more than that, one of the
greatest honors a man can have in one of his most wanted desires is to be able to hand
his daughter to a wonderful man that has proven himself in his wonderful person, spiritual
person, and he knows his daughter will be taken care of for the rest of her life. So
I say salute. God bless you. Congratulations.
All right.
