The ruling on an older man marrying a young girl

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Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner says: I am a man in my sixties, and I married a girl who does not exceed fifteen years of age. What is the ruling on my action?

Answer:
Praise be to Allah. Marriage is sought after, and you have done good. Marriage is sought after whether with an older woman or a younger one. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) commanded marriage

⁽³²⁾ And marry the unmarried among you and the righteous among your male slaves and female slaves. If they should be poor, Allah will enrich them from His bounty, and Allah is all-Encompassing and Knowing. ⁽³³⁾ But let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah enriches them from His bounty. And those who seek a contract [for eventual emancipation] from among whom your right hands possess - then make a contract with them if you know there is within them goodness and give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you. And do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, if they desire chastity, to seek [thereby] the temporary interests of worldly life. And if someone should compel them, then indeed, Allah is [to them], after their compulsion, Forgiving and Merciful.

وَأَنكِحُوا الْأَيَامَىٰ مِنكُمْ وَالصَّالِحِينَ مِنْ عِبَادِكُمْ وَإِمَائِكُمْ إِن يَكُونُوا فُقَرَاءَ يُغْنِهِمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ وَاللَّهُ وَاسِعٌ عَلِيمٌ وَلْيَسْتَعْفِفِ الَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ نِكَاحًا حَتَّىٰ يُغْنِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ

[An-Nur 24:32-33]

If a person is able to marry, he should marry and not remain single without a wife. Yes.

Source لقاء مفتوح بالطائف 05-08-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (6:28)

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