It is a serious crime to marry a girl to someone against her will.
To marry a girl to someone against her will is an intolerable, serious, and blatant crime. This crime is not only against an individual, but it is a direct attack on a woman's dignity, her right to choose, and the just system of Islam. The unfortunate reality is that this oppression is often attempted to be hidden in the name of honor, family respect, tradition, compulsion, or social pressure, although Islam clearly rejects all these excuses.
When a girl is not even given the right to say yes or no in the most important decision of her life, not only is her freedom taken away, but her confidence, peace, dreams, and personality are all crushed. Such a marriage is not worship, but becomes a long, silent, and painful imprisonment, where smiles are forced and relationships become burdens. The question here is, is honor proven by a daughter's tears?
Is family respect preserved by the cries of a helpless heart? Can any tradition be so sacred that it stands against the clear command of Allah and His Messenger ﷺ?
If so, it is not honor, it is oppression; it is not tradition, it is ignorance. Islam has not made marriage a family deal or a social custom, but has declared it a clear contract, and the basis of every contract is consent. The command of the Holy Prophet ﷺ is very clear that *a virgin girl should not be married without her permission*. On one occasion, when a girl complained that she had been forcibly married, the Holy Prophet ﷺ did not accept this marriage as coercion, but gave the girl full authority to either keep the marriage or end it. This incident seals the fact that in Islam, a woman is a party to the marriage, not property or a silent pawn.
Islam does not consider a woman's silence as consent and does not call her compulsion permission. Those who claim that a woman should just accept it, they do not understand Islam nor the teachings of the Prophet of Mercy ﷺ. Islam has given a woman the right to decide, to question, and to refuse, and this is the basis of her honor and greatness. Forced marriages do not only break a girl, they make the whole society sick. In such homes, love does not grow, fear grows; trust does not grow, suspicion is born, and then the same society wonders why morals have deteriorated. The truth is that morals do not deteriorate, justice is killed.
The most dangerous are those who try to put the seal of religion on their oppression. They twist the Quran according to their will, ignore the Hadith, and make Islam a protector of their ego, although Islam is neither their companion nor their justification. Islam will stand as a witness against such people.
A bitter but true fact is that the father, guardian, or family who marries a girl against her will, not only makes a mistake but also commits open treachery in Allah's trust, and treachery in trust is a serious crime in the eyes of religion, even if it is within the home. In the end, the matter is very clear: where there is coercion, there is no marriage; where there is no consent, there is no Islam.
*Limits are violated at that time* The issue here is not just marriage,
It is a matter of faith, trust, and religious honor, and therefore silence on it also becomes a crime.
Just think, the father who has the right to be called a father, in whose hands is the life of a daughter, her religion, and her future as a trust, if the same father wants to marry his Sunni, true-believing daughter to a person or to a belief that is not correct in beliefs, only for worldly benefit, family pressure, or social expediency, then it is not just weakness, it becomes incompetence, religious negligence, and open shamelessness. The question here is not just of liking and disliking,
The question is, does a father have the right to put his daughter's faith at stake? Should a relationship that weakens religion be accepted only because of what people will say?
In Islam, the father is not the owner but the trustee, and the job of the trustee is not to put the trust at risk. The daughter whom he raised on the word of truth, whom he taught the correct belief, if the same father chooses a companion for her whose belief is deviated from this path, then he is not playing with his daughter's future, but with her religion.
What kind of honor is this that awakens for wealth, caste, or customs, but remains asleep on the faith of the daughter? What kind of father is this who forgets the accountability of the Hereafter for the sake of the expediency of the world? Islam has made it clear that marriage is not just a relationship of bodies,
It is a relationship of ideologies, beliefs, and paths. Where the belief is weak or corrupt, peace is also doubtful and the generation is also at risk. In such a situation, if a father is determined to bind his Sunni, true-believing daughter to a wrong belief, then he is neither a well-wisher of the daughter, nor a protector of the religion, nor does he recognize his responsibility. This introduction opens the door to the bitter truth that if forced marriage is a crime, then forced marriage with a wrong belief is an attack on faith, and Islam has a clear, unambiguous, and inflexible stance against every such attack. O oppressive father and all the responsible people of the house, remember, a daughter is not only a member of your house but a trust of Allah. If her faith is shaken due to your stubbornness, greed, or wrong decision, then it will not be just a domestic mistake but an open game with religion, and listen, on the day when the account is set up in the court of Allah, neither relationship will work, nor tradition, nor any excuse. There your arguments will not speak, responsibilities will speak
And the price of this betrayal of trust
You will have to pay in full.
*A request to brothers who are Sunni and true believers and want to get married can contact*
May Allah Almighty provide better means of marriage for every Muslim princess and protect the honor and dignity of every girl. Ameen Ya Rabb Al-Alameen Bijah Al-Nabi Al-Kareem ﷺ.
*✍️Student of Al-Jamia Al-Ashrafia✍️*