[S.T.D.]

Maulana Taliban's statement was:

"I once posted on SF that Hakeem ul Ummah (RA) has advised against marrying beautiful women. ."

The quote from Hakeem ul-Ummat is:

"These days people see beauty in married women although today protection from Fitnah is in that the wife should not be much beautiful. Natural protection is in wife being less beautiful. Then he said on asking, although beauty is a blessing of Allah but today it has more possibility of Fitnah."

There appears to be a significant difference between the two statements. The first is a direct (not implied) discouragement from marrying beautiful women. The second is merely making one aware of the obvious fact that greater beauty naturally entails greater potential for fitnah.

This fitnah, which is actually applicable to anything beautiful in the Dunya, could be anything from attracting undue attention, gossip, evil eye, jealousy, to distracting a man from his deen.

When the Sahabah unhesistantly disposed of beautiful possessions, due to a mere moment's distraction in one Salaat, what problem is there in a man taking this factor into account when considering a lifelong marriage?

Even if Hakeem ul-ummat was referring to his own particular time and circumstances, it doesn't detract from the fact that the quote conveys a basic common sense that is relevant to all times and places.