Guiding Young Men and Women Toward Marriage
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner asks: What is your guidance for young men and women who have not married? For there are many unmarried young men and women at this time. Yes.
Answer:
The guidance is that they should marry, strive to marry, and take steps toward marriage. And the guardians of women and daughters should take the initiative in marrying them off and not delay their marriage, because of the benefits in that, such as preserving dignity, protecting honor, and maintaining chastity.
Marriage for young men and women is a matter the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged. He said: “O young men…”Sunan Ibn Majah 1845Sahih (Darussalam) So there is an exhortation to take the initiative in marriage for young men and women.
And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:[An-Nur 24:32-33].
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner asks: What is your guidance for young men and women who have not married? For there are many unmarried young men and women at this time. Yes.
Answer:
The guidance is that they should marry, strive to marry, and take steps toward marriage. And the guardians of women and daughters should take the initiative in marrying them off and not delay their marriage, because of the benefits in that, such as preserving dignity, protecting honor, and maintaining chastity.
Marriage for young men and women is a matter the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged. He said: “O young men…”
whoever among you can afford it, let him get married, for it is more effective in lowering the gaze and guarding one's chastity. Whoever cannot afford it, let him fast, for it will diminish his desire.
من استطاع منكم الباءة فليتزوج فإنه أغض للبصر وأحصن للفرج ومن لم يستطع فعليه بالصوم فإنه له وجاءAnd Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:
(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 فَضْلِهِThe presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 29 — archive.org (1:21:02)
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