Is forced marriage against islam?

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Is forced marriage against islam? If no, why not? If yes, what is the proof?

Please share your views on this issue thanks in advance for your participation.

regards and all the best.

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Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “A previously-married woman has more right concerning herself than her guardian, and the permission of a virgin should be sought (regarding marriage), and her permission is her silence.” Narrated by Muslim, 1421.

Khansa Bint Khidam said “My father married me to his nephew, and I did not like this match, so I complained to the Messenger of Allah (May Allah bless him and grant him peace). He said to me “accept what your father has arranged.” I said “I do not wish to accept what my father has arranged.”

He said “then this marriage is invalid, go and marry whomever you wish.” I said “I have accepted what my father has arranged, but I wanted women to know that fathers have no right in their daughter’s matters (i.e. they have no right to force a marriage on them). (Fathul Bari Sharah Al Bukhari 9/194, Ibn Majah Kitabun Nikah 1/602)

Narrated Khansa bint Khidam Al Ansariya "...that her father gave her in marriage when she was a matron and she disliked that marriage. So she went to Allah's Apostle and he declared that marriage invalid." [Sahih Al-Bukhari 7.69]

I've read that it says in the Quran that there is no compulsion in religion and I wonder if these words apply to various situations. Islam emphasizes respect and maintenance fof relationships, including marriage. And although divorce is allowed, I've heard that it's the most disliked of all things that Allah has allowed. Keeping these things in mind, a forced marriage can result in bitterness and that doens't help in developing a marriage. The concept goes against the spirit of maintaining relationships....so how can it be considered valid? Even if there was no hadith backing this up, it's a common sense conclusion.

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Allah Almighty said in the Noble Quran: **“O ye who believe! Ye are forbidden to inherit women against their will. Nor should ye treat them with harshness, that ye may take away part of the dower [money given by the husband to the wife for the marriage contract] ye have given them, except where they have been guilty of open lewdness; on the contrary live with them on a footing of kindness and equity. If ye take a dislike to them it may be that ye dislike a thing, and God brings about through it a great deal of good. (The Noble Quran, 4:19)” **

The following Saying is an explanation to Noble Verse 4:19:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: “About the Qur’anic verse: ‘It is not lawful for you forcibly to inherit the woman (of your deceased kinsmen), nor (that) ye should put constraint upon them.’ When a man died, his relatives had more right to his wife then her own guardian. If any one of them wanted to marry her, he did so; or they married her (to some other person), and if they did not want to marry her, they did so. So this verse was revealed about the matter. (Translation of Sunan Abu-Dawud, Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah), Book 11, Number 2084)” So according to Noble Verse 4:19, a woman can not be forced into marriage by any mean.

As Magic said, forced marriage goes against the very spirit of Islam. There is no place for forced marriage in Islam and those who want to find such ways to oppress their own daughters and sisters will be better off leaving Islam altogether.

And Allah SWT has said that HE will **NOT FORGIVE **anyone who violates the rights of his fellow human beings. Think about it. Is forcing your daughter to marry that good-for-nothing nephew of yours, just to please your sister worth the fires of hell?

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Don't know about Islam , but it is against basic human rights to force someone to marry someone they do not want to. It should be declared as statutory rape.

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ooh…but baad mai sab theek ho jata hai…sab ke sath aisey he hota hai. ; ) blah blah blah. haha

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Common statement by the mothers and other various aunties. Don't you find it odd that mothers often lead the charge against their daughters?

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I agree with you 110%! Although going by that, Pakistan is a nation of rapists lol :p

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Thank you very much dear friends for your views, the position of islam is clear that forced marriage is no marriage at all. It is rape ie zinna bil jabar.

The people involved therefore should get the punishment each time a man forces himself on the women. This will help stop the practice inn our muslim societies.

This shows that households that do such things have no family values whatsoever. A loving father, mother, brother, sister, daughter, son will never even dream of forcing any memeber of their family into hell, will they? Any family that does that is therefore a family of animals.

We should do all we can to get such things out of our families, tribes, countries and our world.

Anyone who tries to justify such things in the name of islam should be given what one reeally needs. Hit one on the head with proof from the quran and the hadith and if one does not accept just lock him up with some really mad apes till one learns one's lesson the hard way.

regards and all the best.