Authorizing the Friday preacher to marry a woman who has no guardian
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a woman who says: I am a young woman from France, and I live in a small city in France. I do not have a guardian to marry me, and there is no Islamic center in this city. Is it permissible for me to authorize the Friday preacher to perform my marriage?
The Shaykh:
You do not go to the center; you go to the center, even if it requires traveling a distance, you go to it. The head of the center is the one who takes charge of contracting the marriage, or the head of the center authorizes someone from your village to contract the marriage for you. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
It is obligatory for you to go to the center. If you send a message, or if you send a representative to the head of the center, he authorizes [someone]. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This is a woman who says: I am a young woman from France, and I live in a small city in France. I do not have a guardian to marry me, and there is no Islamic center in this city. Is it permissible for me to authorize the Friday preacher to perform my marriage?
The Shaykh:
You do not go to the center; you go to the center, even if it requires traveling a distance, you go to it. The head of the center is the one who takes charge of contracting the marriage, or the head of the center authorizes someone from your village to contract the marriage for you. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
It is obligatory for you to go to the center. If you send a message, or if you send a representative to the head of the center, he authorizes [someone]. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 28-12-1434هـ — af.org.sa (1:09:46)
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