The Ruling on Preventing Women from Marriage and Stopping Them from Marrying
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Question:
May Allah bless you. Some fathers prevent their daughters from marrying. Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling of the Shari'ah in this matter? And the sister is asking for your guidance on this topic?
Answer:
It is not permissible to prevent women from marrying, meaning to stop them from marrying a suitable match they have agreed to. If a man who is suitable in his religion and his trustworthiness proposes to a woman and she is pleased with him, it is obligatory for her guardian to marry her to him. Do not prevent them from marrying. Allah, Glorious and Exalted is He, forbade preventing them from marrying, saying: "And do not prevent them from marrying." He forbade the woman's guardian from refusing to marry her off, whether to make her serve him or to exploit her, because she is employed and he wants to take her salary. It is not permissible for him to do so; it is forbidden for him. The woman wants to marry, but the opportunity passes her by, and she remains a spinster, and suitors turn away from her. Rather, the guardians of women should fear Allah.[An-Nur 24:32] He commanded them to marry these women and not to prevent them. Ma'qil ibn Yasar (may Allah be pleased with him) had a sister who was married, and her husband divorced her with a revocable divorce, or a divorce less than three, a minor final divorce, so she was separated from him by a minor final divorce. Then both of them desired the other, so he proposed to her from her brother Ma'qil, but he refused to marry her to him. So Allah revealed this verse: [Al-Baqarah 2:232] Therefore, it is not permissible for a woman's guardian to prevent her from marrying a suitable match she has agreed to. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
May Allah bless you. Some fathers prevent their daughters from marrying. Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling of the Shari'ah in this matter? And the sister is asking for your guidance on this topic?
Answer:
It is not permissible to prevent women from marrying, meaning to stop them from marrying a suitable match they have agreed to. If a man who is suitable in his religion and his trustworthiness proposes to a woman and she is pleased with him, it is obligatory for her guardian to marry her to him. Do not prevent them from marrying. Allah, Glorious and Exalted is He, forbade preventing them from marrying, saying: "And do not prevent them from marrying." He forbade the woman's guardian from refusing to marry her off, whether to make her serve him or to exploit her, because she is employed and he wants to take her salary. It is not permissible for him to do so; it is forbidden for him. The woman wants to marry, but the opportunity passes her by, and she remains a spinster, and suitors turn away from her. Rather, the guardians of women should fear Allah.
And marry the unmarried among you and the righteous among your male slaves and female slaves
وَأَنكِحُوا الْأَيَامَىٰ مِنكُمْ وَالصَّالِحِينَ مِنْ عِبَادِكُمْ وَإِمَائِكُمْAnd 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 - 02/271 — archive.org (9:52)
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