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In the arab world bad is an understatement. When I was in Syria I used to see mostly like 40-50 year old men with youngish 20 year old girls. This was not an odd thing but a common sight. Whenever I travel in some parts of the arab world (not the khaleej) they are shocked that at such a young age I am married and have kids. Many of them can just dream of such a thing. They have to get a degree, do military service and then get a job and start saving up for mehr and a house which takes years. So then the guy easily reaches his mid to late 30s unless he is rich or goes abroad to work. The arab world is in a real mess because of this. The exception to this rule is the Gulf where the men get married at an earlish age because they can afford the mehr but even that is changing. Then you have massive social problems as a result of such stupidness. I would say it is a lot easier getting married in the West than in arab countries. The ulema need to speak on the mimbar regarding this. The end result of this madness is just zina, single women, pornography etc. I am very very surprised when I meet a man and he is in his 30s and still not married. I mean it is just not normal to be single at that age unless one is commiting haraam or has very very less sexual desires but sadly in most cases it is the former.