Should a female knowledge seeker be patient and refuse proposals until a knowledge seeker proposes to her?

Should a female knowledge seeker be patient and refuse proposals until a knowledge seeker proposes to her?

The question:
A woman who is a student of knowledge receives marriage proposals, but the men who propose are not. At times, her parents are content with such a person, while the woman refuses and wishes to marry a student of knowledge.

So what is your advice?

Shaykh Yaḥyā al-Ḥajūrī:
She has the right… to be patient until Allāh facilitates for her someone whose religion she is pleased with, whose uprightness she is pleased with, and who is likewise a student of knowledge.

For this is a life:

If Allāh facilitates, for example, mutual accord within it, then happiness is attained, along with peace of mind, mutual harmony, patience, and a wholesome life.

But if haste occurs, and what is called a lack of deliberation occurs, then perhaps a person—after the decree of Allāh, ʿazza wa jall—ends up in circumstances he is not pleased with, and in a condition he finds unsatisfactory, and that may ultimately lead to separation, should circumstances deteriorate; and he may be someone lacking uprightness… even if, at the beginning, one might say, “perhaps this, perhaps that”. There is no doubt that uprightness has tremendous virtue.

So there is no harm in deliberation, and they should be advised to that, until Allāh facilitates virtuous knowledge seeker—and they are many. And a virtuous knowledge seeker, even if some patience over a period of time is required, or a virtuous female knowledge seeker, is better than haste, as mentioned previously.

Source: https://t.me/sh_yahia_duroos/23214