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4. The Right to Marriage about their children's marriage.
The right to marriage is That was why God, the
among the indisputable Exalted, ordered Muslims
rights of children over their to take action for their
parents, especially the father. children's marriage. He
Perhaps, due to a lack of made it an obligatory duty
experience, poverty, lasting of father to help his
wishes and ideal thinking children get married.
he may get distracted in (Mohammadi Reyshahri,
marriage or may start 2000, Vol. 10: 720)
hesitating and procrastinating.
It is a duty of fathers to 5. The Right to Physical
and Mental Well-being
help their children make
appropriate choices by Physical and mental well-
paving the way and taking being is the right of a child
the basic essential steps for over his parents. One of the
that purpose. reasons Islam recommends
Based on religious teachings, marriage to those who are
among the rights of a child physically and mentally
over his/her father is to healthy is because of
give him/her a good name, fulfilling the same right of
teach him/her writing and the child. The children of
when he/she attains the age ailing parents are much
of puberty, he should help likely to be suffering from a
him/her get married. disease. Although intellectual
In the era of ignorance, disability or mental
the parents did not care retardation and mental
