Back to search

What is the legal ruling on preventing a marriage officiant in Mombasa from solemnizing the marriage of a twenty-three-year-old girl who belongs to the Shia sect of the Dawoodi Bohra?

1 min readAlso available in العربية

Officials must adhere to the ruling of Islam in all matters, including marrying off those under their guardianship to suitable suitors if they propose, based on the Almighty’s saying: (And marry those among you who are single) and the Hadith: (If someone whose religion and character you approve of proposes to you, then marry him off). If your closest guardian marries you to a suitable suitor, then the representative of the Bohra community has no right to object, and the marriage is valid with its conditions, and it should be conducted through the Sharia court. If your relatives refuse to marry you to a suitable suitor, their guardianship becomes void, and the Sharia judge will marry you off, based on the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: (The ruler is the guardian of the one who has no guardian). The questioner is advised to abandon the Bohra sect and other Shia sects that contradict the Muhammadiyah path, and to adhere to the methodology of the Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah.

Summarized from the full answer at Ftawy · reviewed Sep 2, 2026

Read the full answer on Ftawy