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This is absolutely nonsense in Islam! People have cousins married with the healthiest of children and people have strangers married with disabilities! The Prophet Mohammad sallallahu Alehi wassalm married his cousin Zainab and he gave his daughter Fatima to his cousin Ali May Allah be pleased with them all.

Medical science says that cousin marriage doubles the chance of birth defects..and islam doesn’t encourage to do anything that is harmful. Then why is cousin marriage allowed in islam?!..Do cousin sisters are to be dressed same as non-mahrams in front of cousin brothers?! Even the first cousins cant be normal brother and sister?

Fiqh of Marriage |