Nikah with a Blind Man

Question

My daughter, who reached puberty (bulugh) about 4 years ago, was married (nikah) about 6 years ago — that is, 2 years before her age of puberty — to a young man. I performed the nikah, as is the custom in present-day Muslim society, especially in our villages, at my own discretion and on the advice of the neighbours in my village, without having seen the young man.

Answer

Despite there being a cataract in his eyes, is it necessary that Providence has shut the door of livelihood for him? Therefore it is better that the girl be sent off to her husband’s home, and the girl should, out of respect for the nikah performed by her father, go to him. But if this does not succeed, then a divorce (talaq)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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