Fiqh of Marriage

QUESTION: Sheikh, If a woman earns and pays for the expenses of household, and do house chores, take care of children and her in-laws and man do nothing .doesn’t man have to do household and taking care of the children. Or it is still duty of the woman.

Fiqh of Marriage, Kind Treatment of Spouses

05 Jun

ANSWER: Her duty is to look after her house, husband and kids. It’s not her responsibility to chip in in the expenses so she can quit the job and be home and let her husband take care of the finances.

QUESTION: Father has agreed to daughters marriage to a boy she likes but refuses to do nikkah till he has a fulltime job. In the meantime daughter is talking to ‘fiance’ on WhatsApp but has strictly been stopped from ever meeting him. Mother cant stop girl from talking in message as she doesn’t listen or father from delaying nikkah. If this drags on is there sin on mum.

Fiqh of Marriage, Pre-Marital Relations

03 Jun

ANSWER: The daughter is sinful for such communications and the father must be informed to stop her or threaten her of canceling the marriage altogether if she is not willing to comply!

QUESTION: Sheikh, can a person who is looking for a bride for their son judge a girl based on the girl’s parent’s behavior?

Fiqh of Marriage

01 Jun

ANSWER No! Can people judge your son by your behavior ?

QUESTION: Sheikh i have a question,I am nikahified only and rukhsati has not been done yet but after nikaah my mother didn’t let me to talk to my husband on calls according to her there is no need to stay connected on calls before rukhasti.She thought talking to your husband is sin and always scolds me for talking to my husband and this irritates me everytime.What should i do?

Fiqh of Marriage

30 May

ANSWER: What she’s saying is totally wrong. He’s your husband and you can definitely talk with him and even go out for dinners, shopping etc with him. Talk to him behind her back!

QUESTION: Am I legally according to shariah able to take my husband’s name out of my will as he does not provide for all expenses. He only pays for the groceries and for 40% of the utility bills. He lives in my house and I pay for the mortgage as it is in my name. He does not fulfilling the rights of wife (me) as he should in all aspects, and hardly spends any time with me. He does not like to socialise as

Fiqh of Marriage

29 May

ANSWER: This is not permissible as it’s Allah who gave him the share in your inheritance if you were to die! You can easily divorce him if he doesn’t provide for you financially and by this not only you can take him off your will but also out of your entire life!

QUESTION: Please I just want to know what your opinion is on genotype and marriage in Islam, because in a lot of cases people tend to break off their engagements due to genotypes not matching. This is something that I’ve witnessed a lot of times and experienced. So please do you think it should be a requirement one should really look at in a potential spouse because?

Fiqh of Marriage, Medicine and medical treatments

28 May

ANSWER: This has nothing to do with Islam and this was never there. It is upto you to accept this marriage. There is nothing wrong in avoiding a marriage based on medical reports that there is a high confirmed possibility that if there were to be children, they would be negatively affected. However, it is […]

QUESTION: My brother, 1 year older wishes to get married. But since I’m the sister and due for marriage for sum tym, my mom refuses to see/accept the person he wishes to marry, lest it lessens my chance. He worries that mum’s refusal may deter the girl’s family from marrying the girl to my brother. What should be done?

Fiqh of Marriage, Fiqh of the family

27 May

ANSWER: No problem if a brother gets married before his sister is married. He is not obliged to wait or to obey his mother in such illogical reason. If he is financially independent, he should go ahead and get married.

QUESTION: Sheikh, Is it permissible for me to pray to get married to a person who is not a believer? I’ve been praying 6 times a day including tahajjud to Allah to make him a believer and to guide him. Should I continue or should I quit knowing that Allah didn’t choose him as a Muslim in the first place? Also, is it advised for me to ask them to believe in allah or not as it should be their own decision ?

Fiqh of Marriage, Religions

23 May

ANSWER: You should not pray for such a person! Ask Allah for someone who is a real Muslim and who would protect you and be a good father to your children. So many marriages to such “reverts” end up miserably because their Islam was not genuine or because their Islam was weak.

QUESTION: Sheikh, when should things like not all women bleed on the wedding night, pregnancy can change a woman’s body, the hymen, etc be taught to men? Because ignorance of those issues cause men to either divorce their wife for not bleeding or body shame their wife

Fiqh of Marriage

22 May

ANSWER: This should be taught to men before their wedding night.

QUESTION: Sheikh I got married and my parents never let me know about my fiancé anything neither he tried to talk now I’m married I don’t like him I don’t feel any connection or love towards him even I tried to but I failed everytime we didn’t have any relationship between us ( physically ) because it makes me anxious everytime i tried to I don’t want to be with him please help me

Fiqh of Marriage, Kind Treatment of Spouses

21 May

ANSWER: Now, it is too late to feel this way after the marriage was done and consummated. You must try to make it work or you must end it! You either seek khulu or accept the fact that the angels will curse you every night till dawn if you refrain from giving him his rights […]

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