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Struggling to get married (20 year old muslim girl)

I'm 20 years old and I'm wanting to get married, through my own choice. I go to university and study medicine, but its in a different city than where I live, so I have to use uni accommodation. I've been looking to get married, but everyone seems to be rejecting me. I have no idea why, and then I had the thought, maybe its because I am wanting to go into medicine? Is that something men take into account when finding a spouse? Bc if I did go into medicine, then I would have to work full time and a lot of hours.
Thanks
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Oh yeah. I am a british pakistani, if that makes a difference. But I haven't been to Pakistan in years and years and I have no affiliation with the country. You wouldn't be able to tell if you saw me
Is anyone able to help me?
Original post by MuslimGirl2004
I'm 20 years old and I'm wanting to get married, through my own choice. I go to university and study medicine, but its in a different city than where I live, so I have to use uni accommodation. I've been looking to get married, but everyone seems to be rejecting me. I have no idea why, and then I had the thought, maybe its because I am wanting to go into medicine? Is that something men take into account when finding a spouse? Bc if I did go into medicine, then I would have to work full time and a lot of hours.
Thanks

My main advice is to make dua for marriage :yep:
i am sure good a good man will appreciate you having a good education and job, there is no rush 🫶🫶
Original post by elareare
My main advice is to make dua for marriage :yep:
i am sure good a good man will appreciate you having a good education and job, there is no rush 🫶🫶

Thank you so much, but I have already done that a lot. Part of me feels like its not the right time, but a lot of me wants to get married now. I'm wondering whether anyone on here thinks I should wait a bit longer or not
Reply 5
Original post by MuslimGirl2004
Is anyone able to help me?

Ma-sha-Allah. Getting married early is suggested as well in Islam, but I will suggest you take your time, find the right person for you and then make a decision because you'll most probably spend the rest of your life with that individual. So, you shouldn't be in a rush or desperate to get married. Most of the time we make wrong decisions when we are in a hurry as we don't get the time to think about the pros and cons of the situation we're going to face. Pray to Allah to help you find the right person for you at the right moment (not necessarily it has to be now or later on but the right moment for you). He'll definitely give you signs. Anyway, have you tried to figure out why those people rejected you? Definitely, all of them didn't reject you because you're studying medicine or you'll work full-time. There could be other reasons too.
Original post by MuslimGirl2004
I'm 20 years old and I'm wanting to get married, through my own choice. I go to university and study medicine, but its in a different city than where I live, so I have to use uni accommodation. I've been looking to get married, but everyone seems to be rejecting me. I have no idea why, and then I had the thought, maybe its because I am wanting to go into medicine? Is that something men take into account when finding a spouse? Bc if I did go into medicine, then I would have to work full time and a lot of hours.
Thanks


I’m pretty sure that any decent guy who is worth marrying wouldn’t be bothered by you studying medicine. In fact it would be the opposite since a well educated man who has the potential to be a good spouse would find you studying medicine to be a good quality and something he would admire about you.
Reply 7
You are only 20 so your age group guys will not be ready to get married, no proper job or house or too young.
Doesnt mean there’s something wrong with you, you just haven’t found the right guy at the right time.
Original post by Meheraj
Ma-sha-Allah. Getting married early is suggested as well in Islam, but I will suggest you take your time, find the right person for you and then make a decision because you'll most probably spend the rest of your life with that individual. So, you shouldn't be in a rush or desperate to get married. Most of the time we make wrong decisions when we are in a hurry as we don't get the time to think about the pros and cons of the situation we're going to face. Pray to Allah to help you find the right person for you at the right moment (not necessarily it has to be now or later on but the right moment for you). He'll definitely give you signs. Anyway, have you tried to figure out why those people rejected you? Definitely, all of them didn't reject you because you're studying medicine or you'll work full-time. There could be other reasons too.

Original post by m_ahmed_w
I’m pretty sure that any decent guy who is worth marrying wouldn’t be bothered by you studying medicine. In fact it would be the opposite since a well educated man who has the potential to be a good spouse would find you studying medicine to be a good quality and something he would admire about you.

Thank you so much
Original post by R3aldeal
You are only 20 so your age group guys will not be ready to get married, no proper job or house or too young.
Doesnt mean there’s something wrong with you, you just haven’t found the right guy at the right time.

I disagree with you on that. I think that around early 20s is the best age, because in Islam, if we prolong it, then we are more likely to sin by committing adultery, so the earlier you do it, the better. And as for a house, it is possible. You can be on a 35-40k job and rent or get an islamic loan set up for a house. There are ways, you just need to find it.
Original post by MuslimGirl2004
I'm 20 years old and I'm wanting to get married, through my own choice. I go to university and study medicine, but its in a different city than where I live, so I have to use uni accommodation. I've been looking to get married, but everyone seems to be rejecting me. I have no idea why, and then I had the thought, maybe its because I am wanting to go into medicine? Is that something men take into account when finding a spouse? Bc if I did go into medicine, then I would have to work full time and a lot of hours.
Thanks

I'm not Muslim, just a white Christian, but I wish to get married too. I'm 21 and a girl, but I'm guessing you want to do it because it's the norm in your religion? Either way, I wish I could find someone and just settle down with them. I'm not a party girl or anything like that so Id rather settle down at 21 and live the rest of my life with the man I'll have children with.
I don't see why your studying would make a guy not want you. Maybe they'd worry that you're too busy for them, but I don't know.
Original post by MuslimGirl2004
I'm 20 years old and I'm wanting to get married, through my own choice. I go to university and study medicine, but its in a different city than where I live, so I have to use uni accommodation. I've been looking to get married, but everyone seems to be rejecting me. I have no idea why, and then I had the thought, maybe its because I am wanting to go into medicine? Is that something men take into account when finding a spouse? Bc if I did go into medicine, then I would have to work full time and a lot of hours.
Thanks

You could try asking them, what reason did they give ?
Reply 12
Students or young men in general like sex and they prefer to be free, getting married would mean no sex with any other woman. We only live once so we want to have fun whilst we're young. If religion is backwards it's not our problem
Original post by Rr600
Students or young men in general like sex and they prefer to be free, getting married would mean no sex with any other woman. We only live once so we want to have fun whilst we're young. If religion is backwards it's not our problem

Brother, that is the problem with having no religion. You are free to do all these disgusting things and all it ends up in is depression. I don't want to be with 10 different guys having sex with 10 ppl in one night. I just want to stay loyal with one man and stay with him for the rest of our lives. And I want to stick to Islamic values, because that's where u ultimately find peace.
Original post by MuslimGirl2004
Brother, that is the problem with having no religion. You are free to do all these disgusting things and all it ends up in is depression. I don't want to be with 10 different guys having sex with 10 ppl in one night. I just want to stay loyal with one man and stay with him for the rest of our lives. And I want to stick to Islamic values, because that's where u ultimately find peace.

no one is forcing you have sex with 10 men. you asked a question about why no one was interested in marrying you and you got someone giving you their perspective. what's the rush with wanting to get married aged 20, anyway?
Original post by Anonymous
no one is forcing you have sex with 10 men. you asked a question about why no one was interested in marrying you and you got someone giving you their perspective. what's the rush with wanting to get married aged 20, anyway?

There is no rush. It was just something I was interested in. And I gave u my perspective.That's all
Original post by MuslimGirl2004
Brother, that is the problem with having no religion. You are free to do all these disgusting things and all it ends up in is depression. I don't want to be with 10 different guys having sex with 10 ppl in one night. I just want to stay loyal with one man and stay with him for the rest of our lives. And I want to stick to Islamic values, because that's where u ultimately find peace.

🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Reply 17
Original post by MuslimGirl2004
Brother, that is the problem with having no religion. You are free to do all these disgusting things and all it ends up in is depression. I don't want to be with 10 different guys having sex with 10 ppl in one night. I just want to stay loyal with one man and stay with him for the rest of our lives. And I want to stick to Islamic values, because that's where u ultimately find peace.

You asked why guys don't want to get married at 20, I gave you an honest answer. All guys I know want to be free and have fun whilst they're young, they would be depressed if they had to be married. You should understand that males have a much bigger sex drive than women, your perspective isn't the same of a young guy whose hormones are exploding. Why do you think porn sites are so popular?
Original post by MuslimGirl2004
Brother, that is the problem with having no religion. You are free to do all these disgusting things and all it ends up in is depression. I don't want to be with 10 different guys having sex with 10 ppl in one night. I just want to stay loyal with one man and stay with him for the rest of our lives. And I want to stick to Islamic values, because that's where u ultimately find peace.
Perhaps unrelated, but as someone who is of no religion (agnostic), I felt the need to explain that, no, nobody is free to do horrible things; I have a moral code that functions in the same way as a religion one - we owe it to humanity. Just as you would like others to do for you, please don’t dismiss or make (unintentionally, I know) hurtful generalisations based on others’ faiths or lack thereof.

As a side note, unfortunately, as with all spaces on the internet, there are many kids on here, and naturally saying things like that will cause hurt and as a result they will say hurtful or immature things towards you (as I have already seen in the replies here!) Everyone has lived an extremely distinct life that has formed their extremely personal beliefs, and the only way we can live with this is by acknowledging the very personal nature of our own beliefs, and rejecting the instinctive generalisations we all want to make about the the others that we just will not really fully understand.

As a PSA I will not be engaging in a debate about my personal religous beliefs on TSR (as per the above…)
Original post by Rr600
You asked why guys don't want to get married at 20, I gave you an honest answer. All guys I know want to be free and have fun whilst they're young, they would be depressed if they had to be married. You should understand that males have a much bigger sex drive than women, your perspective isn't the same of a young guy whose hormones are exploding. Why do you think porn sites are so popular?


give it a rest big man

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