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Mufti Menk

Parent's Disagreeing with their Child's Choice of Spouse

Mufti Menk

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Islam

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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www Muslim Central.com forward slash donate. does a parent have a right to disagree with

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their choice of spouse of their son or daughter? Well I think Mofty just put it

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perfectly where he said it's obviously the best to get the blessings of your parents and obviously anybody who's been married

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Even if you've run off with somebody the love of your life or whatever it may be.

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There comes a time where two human beings living together, they grew up differently,

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they think differently. You're going to clash on a few different things.

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And what tends to happen is that people who haven't

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taken the blessings of their parents then they start to regret should I

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or shouldn't have I should I have done this or should I have actually waited and gotten the blessings of my parents.

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So I think it's important to put it well to say that try your best to involve the parents and get their

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blessing. You save a lot of headache later on. your best to involve the parents and get there.

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Blessing you save a lot of headache later on.

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Absolutely.

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Wufte, would you like to add to that?

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Yeah, I agree with him and if you're saying that, you know,

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do they have a right?

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In the case of a guy, he might be able to technically have a Nika

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officiated without his parents, and we would say it's valid. In the case of a girl

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according to the majority of the scholars she needs her father she needs someone and I tell you that's a mercy of Allah because when a girl is all on her own going in,

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the people that she's married into know that she's got no one.

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