Traveling for the Purpose of Marriage with the Intention of Divorce and Exchanging Women

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. You mentioned, may Allah preserve you, in yesterday's lesson the benefits of marriage, and that one of the most important of them is the benefit of protecting the private parts from unlawful sexual intercourse. Some young people use this benefit as evidence for an issue that has spread among them, which is marriage with the intention of divorce. They travel to foreign countries several times a year, contract marriage with women from those countries, live with them, and then divorce them. Sometimes they marry and divorce several women in a single trip, one for each of them. In fact, some of them, and they are few, engaged in explicit temporary marriage (mut'ah) due to their ignorance. And some of them, Honorable Shaykh, exchange women; one divorces the one he calls his wife, and then his companion marries her immediately, or after she has been purified by a menstrual period if he is scrupulous. Perhaps they return to their countries without knowing whether those women are pregnant from them or not, so lineages are lost, among other serious matters. I ask you, Honorable Shaykh, to clarify the truth regarding the issue of traveling for this reason, to clarify the truth regarding the ruling on marriage with the intention of divorce, and to offer advice to those who do this, may Allah preserve you?

Answer:
This is nonsense, and a waste of offspring, and playing with women. What is the purpose of marriage? Is it merely desire? No, the purpose of marriage is many things: procreation, financial support, living together, the husband's responsibility toward his wife, and the preservation and upbringing of children. The objectives of marriage are many. We do not take just one of them, like the one who takes the gas lighter. In fact, the written contract may be more important than the one who took this purpose. So all of this is wrong, none of it is permissible, and marriage with the intention of divorce is not permissible, even if some people say otherwise, because it is like temporary marriage (mut'ah), in the sense of being the same, because it is the same in that permanence is not intended.
It is not intended for permanence, nor for offspring, but only to satisfy desire for a month, and then the rights of the wife that result from it are wasted. More important than that is the waste of children and offspring, and more important than that is the nonsense, because he marries several women in a short period. Perhaps if they had not married anyone before him, and even if they exit the waiting period, all these are precautions, and this is the standard. This is the action of animals, this is the action of animals, it is not the action of humans. So the one who fears Allah does not do this deed. These people should repent to Allah and leave this deed. Either they marry a valid marriage and live with their wives and raise their children from these women, or they leave this matter and are safe from its evil and nonsense. This brings disgrace to the Muslims and to the Saudis specifically. People come from it and engage in this nonsense, and it is attributed to this country. And this country is a model, a model for the Islamic world. So this deed and this nonsense with honor and modesty is not permissible. The person only satisfies his desire, and that is not the purpose of marriage. The purpose of marriage is many things and great benefits that cannot be overcome. Yes, and Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and his Companions.