Marrying a daughter to someone she does not want
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Question:
After this, we move on to a message received by the program from a listener in the Sultanate of Oman, who indicated her name with the letters (M. S). Our sister says: I am a girl who is twenty-one years old, and I hope that Allah will remove this injustice from me, which I am suffering from.
My problem is that my father refuses to marry me to anyone who proposes to me, even if he is righteous and free from the defects that disqualify a husband; on the pretext that he wants to marry me to one of his brother's sons. I am deprived of being asked for my opinion; rather, the whole matter is up to my father.
Then she continues in this manner, Your Eminence, and concludes by asking Your Eminence: What is your guidance for her and her father?
May Allah reward you with good, for she hopes for righteous offspring, if Allah wills.
Answer:
It is obligatory for your father to marry you off if a suitable suitor proposes, and he has no right to keep you from marriage for the sake of a cousin or anyone else. Rather, it is obligatory for the father to marry off his ward if a suitable suitor who is appropriate for her proposes to her, and he has no right to force her to marry a person she does not accept, whether he is a relative or not.
So it is obligatory for him to fear Allah, and to be afraid of Allah and watch Him; for she is a trust, his daughter is a trust, and so is a man's sister, and so is his brother's daughter if he is her guardian. It is obligatory for the guardian of a woman to choose a suitable suitor for her and to marry her to a suitable suitor if it is facilitated, and not to keep her and wrong her for the sake of a relative of his. We ask Allah for safety. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
After this, we move on to a message received by the program from a listener in the Sultanate of Oman, who indicated her name with the letters (M. S). Our sister says: I am a girl who is twenty-one years old, and I hope that Allah will remove this injustice from me, which I am suffering from.
My problem is that my father refuses to marry me to anyone who proposes to me, even if he is righteous and free from the defects that disqualify a husband; on the pretext that he wants to marry me to one of his brother's sons. I am deprived of being asked for my opinion; rather, the whole matter is up to my father.
Then she continues in this manner, Your Eminence, and concludes by asking Your Eminence: What is your guidance for her and her father?
May Allah reward you with good, for she hopes for righteous offspring, if Allah wills.
Answer:
It is obligatory for your father to marry you off if a suitable suitor proposes, and he has no right to keep you from marriage for the sake of a cousin or anyone else. Rather, it is obligatory for the father to marry off his ward if a suitable suitor who is appropriate for her proposes to her, and he has no right to force her to marry a person she does not accept, whether he is a relative or not.
So it is obligatory for him to fear Allah, and to be afraid of Allah and watch Him; for she is a trust, his daughter is a trust, and so is a man's sister, and so is his brother's daughter if he is her guardian. It is obligatory for the guardian of a woman to choose a suitable suitor for her and to marry her to a suitable suitor if it is facilitated, and not to keep her and wrong her for the sake of a relative of his. We ask Allah for safety. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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