Is It Permissible To Ask for a Specific Person To Be Your Spouse?

Answered by Ustadha Shazia Ahmad

Question:

Are we allowed to make dua to marry someone specific? For example, if someone is pious and kind and you know of them, can you ask Allah Ta’ala to grant them to you as your spouse?

Answer:

Assalamu alaykum,

Thank you for your question. Yes, it is permissible to ask Allah to specifically make someone your spouse. Please see these links to the etiquette of supplication and other useful tips:

https://seekersguidance.org/answers/islamic-belief/reality-etiquettes-supplication-reader/
https://seekersguidance.org/answers/general-counsel/adab-dua/
https://seekersguidance.org/answers/marriage/dua-make-someone-spouse/
https://seekersguidance.org/answers/general-counsel/can-ask-allah-facilitate-marry-someone/

May Allah give you the best of this world and the next.
[Ustadha] Shazia Ahmad

Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Ustadha Shazia Ahmad lived in Damascus, Syria, for two years, where she studied aqidah, fiqh, tajweed, tafseer, and Arabic. She then attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she completed her master’s in Arabic. Afterward, she moved to Amman, Jordan, where she studied fiqh, Arabic, and other sciences. She recently moved back to Mississauga, Canada, where she lives with her family.