Islamic ruling on a Shi’a girl who is not being allowed by the appointed official to get married
Question

                From ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Baaz to Miss F.H.A., may Allaah help her to do that which pleases Him and make things easy for her and guide her aright. Peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allaah and His blessings. I received your letter telling me that you are 23 years old and that you are a Shi’a and a follower of Dawood Bohra, and that the representative of the leader of that group [the Bohra Shi’a] in Kenya is not allowing the official licensed to perform marriages in Mombasa to do your marriage contract, and you want to know the Islamic ruling on that.
Praise be to Allah.There 
          is no doubt that the people in authority of all groups that claim to 
          be Muslim are obliged to adhere to the rulings of Islam in all affairs, 
          and that they should beware of anything that goes against that. It is 
          known in Islamic sharee’ah that guardians are obliged to arrange the 
          marriages of girls under their care if someone compatible proposes marriage, 
          because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“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 Saalihoon (pious, 
          fit and capable ones) of your (male) slaves and maid servants (female 
          slaves). If they be poor, Allaah will enrich them out of His Bounty. 
          And Allaah is All Sufficent for His creatures’ needs, All Knowing (about 
          the state of the people).”
[al-Noor 
          24:32]
And it was narrated that the Prophet 
          
          (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “If there comes to 
          you one with whose religious commitment and character you are pleased, 
          then marry [your female relative under your care] to him, for if you 
          do not do that then there will be fitnah (tribulation) on earth and 
          much mischief.” (Narrated by Imaam al-Tirmdihi and others).
 Based 
          on that, then if one of your guardians who is related to you arranges 
          your married to a compatible person, the representative of the Bohra 
          group has no right to object to that, and the marriage will be valid, 
          so long as the conditions of marriage are fulfilled. That should be 
          done through the sharee’ah court in Mombasa so that no objections can 
          be raised by the representative of the Bohra group. If the marriage 
          is done in the manner mentioned, then your children will be legitimate 
          and neither the Bohra group nor anybody else will be able to deny that. 
          If your relatives refuse to marry you to one who is compatible in order 
          to please the representative of the Bohra group, then their guardianship 
          becomes invalid thereby, and the Muslim judge (qaadi) has the right 
          to do the marriage contract for you with the compatible person who has 
          proposed marriage to you, because the Prophet 
          
          (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The ruler is the 
          wali for the one who has no wali.”
 The 
          qaadi is the deputy of the ruler and takes his place in such matters, 
          and if the wali (guardian) is refusing to arrange the girl’s marriage, 
          the ruling on him is the same as if he was not there at all. 
 But 
          we advise you and others in your position to forsake the Bohra madhhab 
          and other Shi’a madhhabs, because they go against the Islamic way of 
          Muhammad 
          
          (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) in many ways. So you have 
          to leave them and join the madhhab of Ahl al-Sunnah wa’l-Jamaa’ah who 
          follow that which is dictated by the Qur’aan and Sunnah and the way 
          of the early generations of this ummah, the Companions of the Messenger 
          
          (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and those who follow them 
          in truth. I ask Allaah to guide this group and other groups which have 
          gone astray from the right path, and to show them the path of truth. 
          May He help you and us and all the Muslims to do that which will lead 
          to salvation and happiness in this world and in the Hereafter, for He 
          is the One Who is able to do that. Peace be upon you and the mercy and 
          blessings of Allaah.