Ash-Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan حفظه الله تعالى
was asked this question:
Q: Is it permissible for a woman
to remain unmarried if a man who already has a wife and children seeks her hand
in marriage due to the excuse that she wants an individual who is a
virgin?
A: It is not permissible for a woman
to remain unmarried, this is haraam upon her except if she has a legislated
excuse because this (act, not getting married causes the
following):
1: It makes her lose out from (one of the biggest)
opportunities of life (marriage).
2: Prevents her from having offspring.
3: This (reason) is the worse of (the reasons) which
is this (act) exposes her to Fitnah and exposes her to fall into Faahishah,
Fornication, because a woman is in need of a man no matter who she may be and no
matter how she guards herself (from zinaa). So she is in need of a man due to
what Allah has given her of shawah (sexual desires), so this act exposes her to
fitnah.
So if it is easy for her to get married to who she
likes of a man who does not have (another) wife then it is okay. As for it is
not easy then her getting married to a man who has a wife is a thousand times
better then her remaining single where she is prevented from being married while
it is not known that perhaps there is good in this (man) as a husband even
though he has three wives, she can be the fourth. So the fact that she lives
with women under the protection of a man who can keep her chaste, and causes her
to give birth from him, while him being there for her assistance is better then
her remaining single…
Reference: Ahkaam takhusul Marah,
page:41-42
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