From His signs is that He created for you mates from yourselves that you may reside with them, and He placed between you affection and compassion. In that are signs for a people who reflect.
Translation endnotes
[30:21] Marriage must be based on mutual love and care between man and woman. Maintaining and improving love and care requires steady attention, compromise, respect and patience. One spouse should not try to control or suppress the individuality or identity of the other. Marrying through arranged marriages, without the bride and groom seeing and meeting each other, is against God's law in nature, since God must have had a purpose to create man handsome and woman beautiful. Our brain considers the geometric average or the composite of all faces we see as a visual measure for attractiveness. God did not design the package to be ignored at the time it is needed the most. Indeed, physical attraction is mentioned as a main factor in marriage (33:52; 24:30). For divorce, see 2:226-230 and 4:137. For celibacy, see 57:27.