The danger of preventing women from marriage
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Question:
We begin this session, may Allah preserve you, with this request from one of our dear brothers. He asks you, Honorable Shaykh, to speak about the danger of preventing women or girls from marriage, as it has become widespread in recent times, causing delays in the marriage of some young women.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, preventing a woman from marriage means stopping her from marrying a suitable match she has accepted, a suitable match from among her equals whom she has accepted. It is not permissible to prevent her from this.
The hadith states: "When someone comes to you whose religion and character, or whose trustworthiness, you approve of, marry her to him, exceptMusannaf Abd al-Razzaq 16:73." Preventing a woman from marriage is forbidden and an injustice to her. If a suitable man, suitable in his religion and character, proposes to her and she accepts him, it is obligatory to marry her to him, and it is forbidden to prevent her. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: [An-Nisa 4:19] [Al-Baqarah 2:232]. Therefore, preventing a woman from marriage is haram (forbidden), and some scholars have classified it as one of the major sins. The one who prevents her loses his guardianship, and it passes to the next person in line. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
We begin this session, may Allah preserve you, with this request from one of our dear brothers. He asks you, Honorable Shaykh, to speak about the danger of preventing women or girls from marriage, as it has become widespread in recent times, causing delays in the marriage of some young women.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, preventing a woman from marriage means stopping her from marrying a suitable match she has accepted, a suitable match from among her equals whom she has accepted. It is not permissible to prevent her from this.
The hadith states: "When someone comes to you whose religion and character, or whose trustworthiness, you approve of, marry her to him, except
lest there be fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) in the land and great corruption
تفعلوا تكن فتنة في الأرض وفساد كبيرAnd do not make difficulties for them in order to take [back] part of what you gave them unless they commit a clear immorality.
وَلَا تَعْضُلُوهُنَّ لِتَذْهَبُوا بِبَعْضِ مَا آتَيْتُمُوهُنَّ إِلَّا أَن يَأْتِينَ بِفَاحِشَةٍ مُّبَيِّنَةٍAnd when you divorce women and they have fulfilled their term, do not prevent them from remarrying their [former] husbands if they agree among themselves on an acceptable basis.
وَإِذَا طَلَّقْتُمُ النِّسَاءَ فَبَلَغْنَ أَجَلَهُنَّ فَلَا تَعْضُلُوهُنَّ أَن يَنكِحْنَ أَزْوَاجَهُنَّ إِذَا تَرَاضَوْا بَيْنَهُم بِالْمَعْرُوفِThe presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/217 — archive.org (0:57)
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