Seeking money from merchants and rulers for marriage
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is asking merchants or rulers for money for marriage a matter that is prohibited if the person is unable to provide the required amount?
Answer:
His statement that he should be chaste and not ask people is better. Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nur 24:33] This is better for him than asking. He should seek to earn a living until he obtains the mahr and becomes independent of people. However, if he is in need of marriage, has nothing, and waiting would cause him to miss out on benefits or impose hardship on him, there is no harm in seeking the help of people of good and virtue, such as rulers and others.
As for if he can be patient and can earn a living, then being chaste and not asking is better for him than asking, because asking is humiliation and a need for the creation. And this is disliked. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is asking merchants or rulers for money for marriage a matter that is prohibited if the person is unable to provide the required amount?
Answer:
His statement that he should be chaste and not ask people is better. Allah the Exalted said:
But let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah enriches them from His bounty.
وَلْيَسْتَعْفِفِ الَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ نِكَاحًا حَتَّىٰ يُغْنِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِAs for if he can be patient and can earn a living, then being chaste and not asking is better for him than asking, because asking is humiliation and a need for the creation. And this is disliked. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 24 — archive.org (18:33)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.