However, I recently found out that it is not permissible at all. I came to my home country to be with my family a few months back and now it’s time for me to go. I am in the last year of my PhD (I am writing up my research report)and I had signed a […]

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If he has reached the age of puberty, he can be your Mahram. Otherwise, he is not.

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Praise be to Allaah. It is permissible for a woman to take off her hijaab in front of her mahrams. A woman’s mahram is a person whom she is never permitted to marry because of their close blood relationship (such as her father, grandfather, great-grandfather, etc., and her son, grandson, great-grandson, etc., her paternal and […]

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A foster brother is not related to you and he is not Mahram to you and you can marry him.

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(I heard it can be found in ‘ziwaaj’ (Sunan, Book of marriage): To the nearest meaning, “If you intermarry generation after generation, & your children are born with diseases & disabilities, may be it is better that you avoid marrying your first cousin” …………………………………………………………………….. This is not authentic

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