Fatwa: # 15545
Category: Marriage
Country: Pakistan
Date: 19th August 2007

Title

Is it correct to force one's daughter or son to get married to a person of parents' chice specifically just because the person choosen by the parents is a relative.

Question

Is it correct to force one's daughter or son to get married to a person of parents' chice specifically just because the person choosen by the parents is a relative.

Answer

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Assalaamu `alaykum waRahmatullahi Wabarakatoh

It is incorrect for parents to force or impose on their children to marry a person of their choice. Parents may advise their child or an appropriate marriage partner. It is the child’s Shari right to decide his or her marriage partner. However children should strongly consider the advice of their parents regarding marriage. Their advise is based on love their children. If the child is not inclined towards the choice of the parents after due consideration, then the parents should respect that and not force their child against his/her will.

And Allah knows best

Wassalam

Mufti Ebrahim Desai
Darul Iftaa

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