From `Abdul`Aziz ibn `Abdullah ibn Baz to Miss F. H. A. May Allah guide her to what pleases Him, facilitate and set aright her affairs! Assalamu `alaykum warahmatullah wabarakatuh (May Allah's Peace, Mercy, and Blessings be upon you!)
I have received your letter, which states that you are a 23yearold Shiite girl following Dawud Buhrawan who acts as the representative of the sect and lives in Kenya. The letter states that he prevents the Ma'dhun (marriage registrant) of Mombasa city from concluding your marriage contract, and you want to know the Shar`i ruling on it.
A: Certainly, all Muslim officials must abide by the rulings of Islam in all matters and avoid violations. Islamic Shari`ah states that Awliya' (pl. of Waliy i.e. a legally accountable person acting for a woman seeking marriage) should marry the girls in their charge when an eligible suitor proposes to them.
And marry those among you who are single (i.e. a man who has no wife and the woman who has no husband) and (also marry) the Sâlihûn (pious, fit and capable ones) of your (male) slaves and maidservants (female slaves). If they be poor, Allâh will enrich them out of His Bounty. And Allâh is AllSufficient for His creatures' needs, AllKnowing (about the state of the people).
If someone with a satisfactory standard of faith and good conduct comes to you seeking marriage, then give him (your daughter or sister) in marriage. If you refuse, that will lead to spread of temptation and great corruption on earth. Recorded by Imam AlTirmidhy and others.
Thus, if the closest one of your Awliya' gave you in marriage to a suitable man, the clerk representing the sect of AlBahrah is not entitled to oppose it and the marriage is valid if it fulfills its conditions. Marriage should be concluded by the Shar`i court in Mombasa so that clerk of the sect of AlBahrah finds no way to oppose the marriage.
[If there is a dispute,] the ruler (the authority) is the guardian of one who has none.
I advise you and your like to stop following the doctrine of AlBahrah or any other sects of Shiites, because they contradict the Islamic way called by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in many aspects. Therefore, you must renounce them and follow the way of Ahlul Sunnah walJama`ah (those adhering to the Sunnah and the Muslim main body) who act upon the Qur'an, Sunnah and the methodology of the Salaf (righteous predecessors), including Companions of the Messenger (peace be upon him) and those who followed them in the best way.
Assalamu `alaykum warahmatullah wabarakatuh