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Ruling
concerning having wedding parties in hotels
Question:
What is your opinion about the parties that are held in hotels?
Response:
The parties that are held in hotels have many things wrong
about them and may be criticised for many reasons.
First,
they are usually done extravagantly and beyond what is needed;
Second,
this leads to the extra financial burden of having wedding
parties in hotels and the presence of people for whom there
is no need;
Third,
it may lead to mixing between the men and women of the hotel
and others. This mixing is a disgraceful evil.
This
is why the leading scholars issued a decree and gave it to
the King advising him not to allow parties and wedding parties
to be held in hotels. Instead, they said, the wedding parties
should be held in the houses and hotels should not be hired,
as such wedding parties lead to lots of evil. Similar is the
case with the halls that are rented for a great deal of money.
This advice was all concluded out of concern for the people,
economic considerations, avoiding of extravagance and luxury.
Also, this will allow those who are of the middle class to
be able to afford to get married and will not be a great burden
upon them. If they see their cousin or relative getting married
in an expensive hotel party, he must compete with him or do
something similar. This will drive him to borrow money. Otherwise,
he may have to delay his marriage out of fear of such heavy
expenses.
My
advice to all Muslim brethren is that they should not hold
their wedding parties in such hotels nor in the expensive
halls that are rented for that purpose. They should hold them
in inexpensive halls or not hold them in the halls at all.
To hold them in the houses is preferred anyway. Or one could
hold them in his relatives' house if that is possible.
Shaykh
Ibn Baaz
Fataawa al-Mar.ah
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