Advice for the Woman Whose Marriage Has Been Delayed

Question:
We begin this episode, may Allah bless you, with this question and this advice from one of the sisters. She says that she is not married and that her age has grown long. So what do you advise her, may Allah preserve her, since no husband has been written for her and it has been written for her to remain without marriage? She has passed the age of marriage and is approaching the age of despair. What are your instructions, may Allah bless you?

Answer:
And may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As long as you have not been negligent, and you have not turned away a suitor who is a cave, and marriage has not been written for you, then praise be to Allah. Be patient and do not despair. Perhaps someone will come forward who desires to marry you. And increase in supplication, so that Allah may answer you. This is what pertains to the question. But what pertains to the issue is very regrettable, because marriages nowadays are hindered for reasons. First, women’s work, which occupied the woman and the pursuit of money. This occupied the woman and took her time, exposed her to what she cannot handle, and deprived her of a husband. It may even deprive her of offspring. So this is the reason. If the woman had stayed in her home and waited for marriage, Allah would have provided for her as well. The books and journalists are warned against marriage, and against the marriage of the elderly, and the marriage of the young girl, and against plural marriage. This is also a cause of turning away from marriage. So these people should fear Allah the Exalted, and they should encourage marriage, urge it, and help with it. If there comes to you and great corruption. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you.