Fiqh of Marriage

Shaikh, I want to know that is it permissible to marry over video chatting? If the girl’s father agrees as well as the girl, but the girl cannot meet the boy face to face because they both live in two continents. The girl lives away from her father, but her father agreed to marry her to the boy she wants to marry. So is it permissible for the boy to marry her over Skype?

09 Nov

Technically speaking, if all parties including the witnesses know each other beyond doubt and no one can impersonate one of them, this is permissible though I don’t advise of it as I have seen so many similar marriages where the woman has been running after her husband to divorce her and he is refusing that […]

I recently had my nikah performed alhamdulillah. But we had it performed in a masjid, and my bride was on her menses at the time! We stupidly didn’t realize it was haram for her to be there on period. Is our nikah invalid, I am freaking out!

Fiqh of Marriage

08 Nov

The nikkah is valid. Ask forgiveness from Allah!

Today my husband let me know that because I am not an Arab woman, he doesn’t ask me for wedding party. We got married three years ago. Is his thinking ok about no wedding party because I am not an Arab woman?

Fiqh of Marriage

08 Nov

This is from Satan. You are married for 3 years, why this subject came now? Don’t let shaitan interfere between you two. Having a wedding party is not an essential thing in Islam and the marriage is valid without it. As long as he prepared a dinner and invited some people to it, this is […]

Could you give advise in light of quran&sunnah? A muslim sister did her nikaah in presence of a wali she chose by herself (not her Father), 1 witness (2nd couldn’t come), and her husband to be. Then she left with this man she married. Her parents didn’t agree. I told her this nikaah is not valid. She doesn’t listen. What do you think about the situation?

Fiqh of Marriage

25 Oct

The marriage is void and invalid.

In India, we have a custom of applying turmeric to the bride and the groom for some days before nikah. I think this is a Hindu custom but I am not sure. So is this custom permissible?

Fiqh of Marriage

25 Oct

If this is done for beautification or skin cleansing purposes and not in a way that imitates hindus or kuffar. it is permissible.

Is it allowed for me to ask my to be husband in mahar – “that he cannot have a second marriage until I am alive”. Is it that I am stopping from something halal? And if a person does not fulfil / break the mahar , what is the ruling ?

Fiqh of Marriage

23 Oct

You can stipulate a condition, but this is not mahr. In this case he has to respect it or to divorce.

My family like me to marry someone with ‘degree, career & educated family’. My family is wealthy bi’idhnillah but I am not like my family and I feel compatible with someone simple like a Muslim working in shop. my father is not practising Shia. If my family (Agnostic or Shia) disagrees or threatens, what path should I take? I do not want them to feel bitter with Islam

Fiqh of Marriage

22 Oct

If your family is like you describe, their restriction does not have a value legally and you must seek for an imam to be your wali if there are no relatives from your father’s side that are practicing Sunni muslims.

this is further in query to my earlier question,can a divorced woman marry a muslim man without the consent of her father who is refusing as that man is already married,by making an imam her wali. I saw on islamicqa.info website query no.95405 in marriage section by Shaykh Muhammad Salih Al Munajjid that if father refuses for a non shariah reason she can make imam her wali n marry.

Fiqh of Marriage

08 Oct

This is not permissible! Only if the father is continuously rejecting pious proposals that a woman can complain to the Islamic court or to the authorized Imam of the Islamic center who would look into her proposal and her father’s refusal and then he may override her father’s decision if it was unfair and appoint […]

Can I marry a brother without my Wali, out of fear, my father will do Sihr on me. This father has never known me since I was a toddler, severely!!! neglected me and did a lot of sihr on the rest of my family especially my mother to kill her, together with his wife, and makes no effort to know me (he has my number). I’m 22

Fiqh of Marriage

07 Oct

If your Wali (father) is unfit to be your wali, you should take your case to the Islamic court and complain to them and they will appoint the next one in line to be your wali such as your paternal grandfather or your paternal uncle or your bother.

Is it allowed in Islam to have a waliyu{my brother) represatative on my Nikah ceremony because he could not make it for some reasons.?

Fiqh of Marriage

07 Oct

A marriage is not valid without the wali of the woman. If her proper Wali appoints someone trustworthy to represent him, this is permissible.

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