What is the advice for a man who is advanced in age and does not want to get married, citing the high cost of living and changing circumstances?
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Question:
Please, my brother Ahmad from Dammam. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. May Allah keep you in goodness, may Allah reward you with good, if Allah wills. Yes, please go ahead. Okay, I am asking the Shaykh, may Allah prolong your life. Regarding me, I have a colleague now whom I am advising, as advice, to get married, and he says, meaning he does not want to get married. He says, meaning he puts forward an excuse, saying that the world now has high prices and a difficult livelihood, and I do not know what. And I said to him, everything is sustenance, and marriage is from the greatness of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. I do not want to get married. Okay. We tried to integrate, may you wake up. May Allah bless you. Continue, and this. The question is clear, O Shaykh, my brother Ahmad. Please. He says: O Shaykh, we need advice for a friend. He says: We advise him to get married, and he is advanced in age. He says there is a high cost of living and circumstances have changed, and so on. He wants advice from you.
Answer:
Yes, there is no doubt that marriage is encouraged, and hastening to get married is encouraged. And if he fears for himself falling into immorality, then it is obligatory for him to get married if he has the ability, based on his saying (peace and blessings be upon him)Mishkat al-Masabih 3080 And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said [An-Nur 24:33] [An-Nur 24:33], so he should hasten to get married?
Please, my brother Ahmad from Dammam. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. May Allah keep you in goodness, may Allah reward you with good, if Allah wills. Yes, please go ahead. Okay, I am asking the Shaykh, may Allah prolong your life. Regarding me, I have a colleague now whom I am advising, as advice, to get married, and he says, meaning he does not want to get married. He says, meaning he puts forward an excuse, saying that the world now has high prices and a difficult livelihood, and I do not know what. And I said to him, everything is sustenance, and marriage is from the greatness of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. I do not want to get married. Okay. We tried to integrate, may you wake up. May Allah bless you. Continue, and this. The question is clear, O Shaykh, my brother Ahmad. Please. He says: O Shaykh, we need advice for a friend. He says: We advise him to get married, and he is advanced in age. He says there is a high cost of living and circumstances have changed, and so on. He wants advice from you.
Answer:
Yes, there is no doubt that marriage is encouraged, and hastening to get married is encouraged. And if he fears for himself falling into immorality, then it is obligatory for him to get married if he has the ability, based on his saying (peace and blessings be upon him)
Young man, those of you who can support a wife should marry, for it keeps you from looking at strange women and preserves you from immorality; but those who cannot should devote themselves to fasting, for it is a means of suppressing sexual desire.
يا معشر الشباب من استطاع منكم الباءة فليتزوج فإنه أغض للبصر وأحصن للفرج ومن لم يستطع فعليه بالصوم فإنه له وجاءBut let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain
وَلْيَسْتَعْفِفِ الَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ نِكَاحًاuntil Allah enriches them from His bounty
حَتَّىٰ يُغْنِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما النصيحة لرجل تقدم به العمر ولا يريد الزواج بحجة غلاء المعيشة وتغير الأحوال؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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