Choose the one who is religiously committed

Question:

Do you advise the one who can’t find a woman upon Salafiyaah to get married to a ‘aamiyah (normal woman) hoping that the woman will become upright?

Answer:

I don’t think there is an absence in the woman upon Salafiyaah, perhaps you have another requirement then this is something else, perhaps you are looking for something that you can’t find in the salafiyaat. So you looked left and right and you found it the ‘aamiyaat (normal woman)

“..فاظفر بذات الدين تربت يداك”

Choose the one who is religiously committed, may your hands be rubbed in dirt.
[Narrated by Bukhari and muslim]

So if you’ve found a woman upon Salafiyaah and a ‘aamiyaah who has more beauty than the salafiyaah, then upon you is Salafiyaah, and Allah will bless you in it.

Some of our brothers look at beauty more than the religion, I swear by Allah more than looking at her uprightness and looking her whether she seeks knowledge or not and the good which she has with her from memorization of the Quraan and teaching and dawah that she has with her, this is not looked at, (they say) “give us that beautiful one”. This is not befitting especially for a student of knowledge, and beauty without a doubt is a reason why a woman gets married however in the end the prophet guided to that which is more great:

“..فاظفر بذات الدين تربت يداك”

Choose the one who is religiously commited, may your hands be rubbed in dirt.

But if you have another requirement then yes, no doubt perhaps you may not find it, as for saying there are no Salafiyaat then this is not correct. There are many Alhamdulillah, the country is not void of salafiyaat.

Answered by: Shaykh Abu Bilaal Al-hadhramy – may Allah preserve him

Source: https://t.me/abubilalhami/138

Answered on: 26th dhul hijjah, 1439

Translated by: Abu Huthayfah Saamy Al-hindy