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Sheikh should a woman get married young or should she finish her education and get her degree before getting married? Nowadays I feel like most women prioritise education over getting married and they waste their whole youth and then after they struggle to get married when they reach an old age

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Ustadh AbdulAziz al-Haqqan

Yes, of course we recommend getting married early. All of this talk about degrees and jobs and so on—it might not even happen even if she waited, and she would be wasting her life and missing out on a lot of things that she might regret later on. I encourage the youth to get married once they reach the legal age in their countries. However, I also advise them that they should be mature enough (or teach themselves to be mature enough), patient, forgiving, compromising, and ready to take on full responsibility. They must be prepared for even more than what they think the responsibility is going to be, because once they face reality, it is often more than they imagined. They should be fully prepared to endure even more than that. With such a mentality, Alhamdulillah, they would—if Allah wills—achieve a healthy relationship. This is a healthy mentality and this is how it should be, rather than the opposite, which results in failure and a lack of maturity.

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