The ruling on a father forcing his daughter to marry and his greed for her salary

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. A listener from the Western Region says, “Ayn Nunna” says: I am a listener to this beneficial program, and I ask you, may Allah reward you with good, that I have a problem, which is as follows: I am a girl who has been working as a teacher for a period of time, and my father loves money intensely. He initially refused my marriage so that he could receive my salary monthly. Finally, he forced me to marry a man I do not want to marry, do not desire, and do not want to live with. Therefore, I refused this marriage. He, my father, is insistent on my marrying him. He threatens me by saying, “It is forbidden for you to marry anyone other than this man.” What drove him to this is his greed for the salary, and also to marry this man to one of his wards for benefits that return to him personally, and I have nothing from them but misery, fatigue, and a life that is all an unbearable hell. And naturally, I do not want this person at all, even if I remain in this state forever. I do not doubt that this salary has become a source of misery for me and a loss in this life. What is your guidance, may Allah preserve you? Do you advise me to leave my job, or what is the solution in your view? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
This is a bad phenomenon that has occurred in this time, namely that the guardians of women prevent them from marrying suitable men in order to obtain their salaries from their jobs. This is a betrayal of the trust that Allah has placed in them, for these women are a trust in their care, and Allah has appointed them as guardians over them so that they look after their interests. The greatest of their interests is marrying a woman to a man of good character. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “When there comes to you a man whose religion and trustworthiness you are pleased with, marry him to her” . If a woman is prevented by her guardian from marrying, with the hope of her salary, there are great harms for the woman: her youth passes, and the desire of men for her passes, and the opportunity to have offspring, by which Allah may benefit her, passes, and great interests are lost.
And if a woman misses marriage in the early part of her youth, then the gazes of men turn away from her, and she suffers great harm from that. So the guardians should fear Allah the Exalted and Majestic.
And they should not, and should not harm their wards for the sake of their own interests, for this is a betrayal of the trust and a loss of the flock that Allah has made them guardians of. This is from the side of greed for the salaries of daughters or women who are wards by their guardians. As for forcing a woman to marry a husband she does not want and does not desire, this is not permissible, and it is not permissible for the father to force his ward, nor for any other of the guardians, a fortiori, to force their wards to marry someone they do not approve of as a husband for them.
The consent and approval of the woman and taking her opinion in the one she is to be married to is necessary, and it is not permissible to restrict her to a specific person and force her to marry him. This is a forbidden matter, contrary to what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded.

The presenter:
May Allah send blessings upon him. [It is] the seeking of the women’s permission regarding whom they marry and taking their opinion and their desire in that.
And as for the third issue, which is more severe, and that is that the woman is not to be married except to one who marries [another woman], and the marriage of the woman is conditioned by the marriage of another woman, this is the shigar (exchange marriage) that is prohibited, and the invalid marriage. So the guardians of women should fear Allah the Exalted and Majestic in their wards, in their wards, and they should be good in their care, fulfill the trust, and advise their wards, for this is better for them and better for them, and in that are interests for everyone that no one knows except Allah. Yes. May Allah reward you with good and do you good.