The Ruling on Visiting Diviners and the Delay in a Girl’s Marriage
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. She says: Shaykh Salih, she has passed the age of thirty, works as a teacher, and says that her parents are pleased with her, but her marriage has not been arranged yet. Every proposal she receives ends in failure. Then, as she says, she went to some diviners, and they told her that this is sorcery. What is Shaykh Salih’s guidance regarding this belief? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
It is customary that if a girl’s marriage is delayed, this reduces the desire for her. Therefore, it is obligatory to hasten to marry girls when they reach puberty, out of fear of remaining unmarried and of men’s desire for women shifting away. What the questioner mentioned is of this nature: her marriage was delayed, and afterwards men lost interest in her or turned their attention away from her.
This is a problem, and we advise our Muslim brothers to avoid it by hastening to marry their female wards when they reach the age of marriage. As for what she mentioned about going to diviners, this is an invalid matter. It is not permissible to go to diviners because diviners engage in forbidden matters such as sorcery and other forbidden things, and they claim knowledge of the unseen. This is not permissible. It was mentioned in the hadith: Sahih Muslim 2230 And in another hadith: Sunan al-Bayhaqi 15:740 The matter is serious, and it is not permissible to go to these false prophets, sorcerers, diviners, and liars who deceive people and corrupt their beliefs. So the questioner should repent to Allah the Exalted and Majestic for what she did, and not return to such things.
And she should strive to hasten to marriage when a suitable suitor proposes to her, according to the best possible standard, as long as he is upright in his religion, yes, and has good character, yes. Then she should proceed to marriage. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “When there comes to you one whose religion and trustworthiness you are pleased with, marry him, lest there be fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) on the earth and great corruption.” Even if he has little wealth, as Allah the Exalted and Majestic said:[An-Nur 24:32] Marriage may be a cause of wealth. For this reason, some of the Salaf (the earliest generations) said: “Seek wealth through marriage,” because Allah promised this in His saying: [An-Nur 24:32] Yes.
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. She says: Shaykh Salih, she has passed the age of thirty, works as a teacher, and says that her parents are pleased with her, but her marriage has not been arranged yet. Every proposal she receives ends in failure. Then, as she says, she went to some diviners, and they told her that this is sorcery. What is Shaykh Salih’s guidance regarding this belief? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
It is customary that if a girl’s marriage is delayed, this reduces the desire for her. Therefore, it is obligatory to hasten to marry girls when they reach puberty, out of fear of remaining unmarried and of men’s desire for women shifting away. What the questioner mentioned is of this nature: her marriage was delayed, and afterwards men lost interest in her or turned their attention away from her.
This is a problem, and we advise our Muslim brothers to avoid it by hastening to marry their female wards when they reach the age of marriage. As for what she mentioned about going to diviners, this is an invalid matter. It is not permissible to go to diviners because diviners engage in forbidden matters such as sorcery and other forbidden things, and they claim knowledge of the unseen. This is not permissible. It was mentioned in the hadith:
Whoever goes to a diviner
من أتى عرافاand asks him about anything, his prayers extending to forty nights will not be accepted.
فسأله عن شيء لم تقبل له صلاة أربعين يوما.Another hadith: “Whoever goes to a diviner or a soothsayer and believes in what he says has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).”
آخر مَنْ أَتَى عَرَّافًا أَوْ كَاهِنًا فَصَدَّقَهُ بِمَا يَقُولُ فَقَدْ كَفَرَ بِمَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ صلى الله عليه وسلم.And she should strive to hasten to marriage when a suitable suitor proposes to her, according to the best possible standard, as long as he is upright in his religion, yes, and has good character, yes. Then she should proceed to marriage. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “When there comes to you one whose religion and trustworthiness you are pleased with, marry him, lest there be fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) on the earth and great corruption.” Even if he has little wealth, as Allah the Exalted and Majestic said:
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
وَأَنكِحُوا الْأَيَامَىٰ مِنكُمْ وَالصَّالِحِينَ مِنْ عِبَادِكُمْ وَإِمَائِكُمْ إِن يَكُونُوا فُقَرَاءَ يُغْنِهِمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِIf they should be poor, Allah will enrich them from His bounty
إِن يَكُونُوا فُقَرَاءَ يُغْنِهِمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، تأخر زواجها ، فذهبت إلى العرافين، فقالوا: إن هذا سحر، ما التوجيه حيال هذا الأمر؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان؟ — youtube.com
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