What if someone chooses to remain single both in this world and the hereafter?
Question

                Can Allah make exceptions?

So if a person was to remain both in this world and the next is it allowed even if one makes dua? I ask because even though, Allah says you will have whatever the soul desires but Nabi SAW says no one in Jannah will be single.

But what if a person just wants to remain single in the akhirah as well? Surely, Allah doesnt force upon you anything in Jannah
Praise be to Allah.
	Firstly:

	This question is purely theoretical, as it will not happen on 
	the Day of Resurrection, because the revelation tells us that there will be 
	no single people in Paradise.

	It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah said: Abu’l-Qaasim 
	(blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “and there will be no one 
	in Paradise who is unmarried.” Narrated by Muslim (2834).

	Marriage is one of the delights of the people of Paradise, 
	and the people of Paradise will have no delights except what they themselves 
	desire, not what they dislike or do not want.

	Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the 
	meaning):

	“Therein you 
	shall have (all) that your inner-selves desire, and therein you shall have 
	(all) for which you ask for”

	[Fussilat 41:31]

	“(there will 
	be) therein all that the ones inner-selves could desire, all that the eyes 
	could delight in, and you will abide therein forever”

	[az-Zukhruf 43:71].

	From this it is clear that as they will all be blessed with 
	marriage, they will inevitably long for it, and that none of the people of 
	Paradise will refuse marriage.

	Secondly: 

	In this world a person may have no desire for a wife, for one 
	of the following reasons – none of which will be applicable in the 
	hereafter:

	1.

	He has not been given any desire for women, because he has 
	concerns and preoccupations, either religious or worldly, that weaken him 
	and overcome his desire for women, so he is distracted from them. This is 
	something that will not happen in Paradise, because in Paradise there is no 
	worry, fatigue or accountability, as is well known.

	Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the 
	meaning):

	“No sense of 
	fatigue shall touch them, nor shall they (ever) be asked to leave it”

	[al-Hijr 15:48]. 

	2.

	He is suffering from a psychological or physical problem 
	which leads to him having no desire or inclination towards women. The people 
	of Paradise will not suffer from any sickness or problem; rather they will 
	be given strength for intimacy with women that is greater than that of 
	people in this world. 

	It was narrated from Zayd ibn Arqam that he said: The 
	Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “A man 
	of the people of Paradise will be given the strength of one hundred men with 
	regard to eating, drinking, desire and intercourse.” Narrated by Ahmad 
	(32/65 and 32/19); classed as saheeh by the commentators on al-Musnad, 
	and by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami‘ as-Sagheer (1/335). 

	3.

	He believes that marriage is a shortcoming and that celibacy 
	is perfection, as in the case of some of those who claim to be Sufis and 
	ascetics. Hence he turns away from marriage and does not want to get 
	married. 

	This is ignorance and a lack of knowledge, and the people of 
	Paradise are far above that, because in fact having desire for and an 
	inclination towards women, and the strength for intimacy with them, is part 
	of praiseworthy human perfection. Hence the Prophets, who are the elite of 
	mankind, used to get married. 

	Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the 
	meaning):

	“And indeed 
	We sent Messengers before you (O Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be 
	upon him)), and made for them wives and offspring”

	[ar-Ra‘d 13:38]. 

	Ibn al-Jawzi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: 

	Having a lot of wives and concubines is praiseworthy, not 
	blameworthy. The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) had 
	wives and concubines. 

	Seeking to get married in order to have children is a kind of 
	worship, and if the aim is to seek pleasure, that is permissible, and may 
	also be a kind of worship, as it is a means of keeping oneself and one’s 
	wife chaste, and so on. 

	Moosa (peace be upon him) spent ten years of his blessed life 
	to pay the dowry for the daughter of Shu‘ayb; were it not that marriage is 
	one of the best of things, the Prophets would not have spent so much time on 
	it. End quote.

	Sayd al-Khaatir 
	(p. 64-65). 

	Turning away from marriage and refraining from it when one 
	has the ability to get married is something blameworthy that is contrary to 
	Islamic teaching. 

	It was narrated from Anas ibn Maalik (may Allah be pleased 
	with him) that he said: Three men came to the houses of the wives of the 
	Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), asking about the worship 
	of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him). When they were 
	told about it, it was as if they thought it was too little. They said: Who 
	are we in comparison to the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon 
	him)? He has been forgiven his previous and future sins. One of them said: 
	As for me, I shall pray all night for ever. Another said: I shall fast all 
	my life and never not fast. And the last one said: I shall keep away from 
	women and never get married. The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of 
	Allah be upon him) came to them and said: Are you the people who said such 
	and such? By Allah, I am the one who fears Allah the most among you and am 
	the most pious among you, but I fast and do not fast, I pray and I sleep, 
	and I marry women. Whoever turns away from my Sunnah is not of me.”

	Narrated by al-Bukhaari (5063) and Muslim (1401). 

	Conclusion: this question is based on comparing the life of 
	the people of Paradise to the life of the people of this world, and 
	comparing the perfect desires of the people of Paradise to the desires of 
	the people of this world, which may be affected by shortcomings and 
	ignorance. Hence this is a false analogy, because it is comparing different 
	things; it is comparing the perfect life with imperfect life. 

	Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the 
	meaning):

	“The life of 
	this world is nothing but a distraction and play. Verily the life of the 
	Hereafter is the only true life, if only they knew”

	[al-‘Ankaboot 29:64]. 

	Shaykh ‘Abd ar-Rahmaan as-Sa ‘di (may Allah have mercy on 
	him) said: 

	As for the hereafter, it is the abode of “life”, that 
	is, the perfect life, one of the characteristics of which is that people 
	there will be physically strong, because their bodies and strength will be 
	created for life, and everything will be available there that makes life 
	perfect and brings pleasure and joy and fulfilment of physical desires, by 
	way of food, drink, spouses and so on, such as no eye has seen, no ear has 
	heard, nor has it entered the mind of man.

	End quote. 

	Tafseer as-Sa‘di 
	(p. 635) 

	And Allah knows best.