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  • Arranging a marriage for pay only to get citizenship

    I know of a brother who has accepted to "legally" marry a Muslim girl in the US for her to achieve legal status as he is a citizen of the country and she only having visa status. The girl has problems in her home country and will not go back. The brother swore not to meet her throughout this affair in only times where his presence is needed.. More

  • Woman marrying a Christian to get a green card in US

    What does Islam say if you marry a Christian and pay him money to have your green card processes in the US? Is this considered Haraam? .. More

  • Complicated marriage

    I have an embarrassing question, but need an answer. I met a Muslim man in 1993 in the USA. I was a Christian American. We began dating and even lived together and committed Zina. We were both ignorant at the time. He had strayed from Islam and was completely ignorant of even the basics of Islam and I was a Kufr. I got pregnant and we married.. More

  • When she married her Muslim husband she was a Christian only on paper

    I married my Muslim husband 9 years ago in my country while I was Christian in papers but atheist in reality and I was not a chaste person. Now I became Muslim from 6 years, even I am a devout Muslim now dressing Niqab and we have 3 children. Is our marriage valid? .. More

  • Thinks he may have to renew his marriage because he was not praying before the wedding

    I have been married for the last 4 years with a lovely wife and daughter Hamdu Lillaah, but I have a big problem which keeps tormenting me and making my life hell, when I got married (Aakd Al-Nikaah) I was not praying but my was (I only started praying on the day I consumed my marriage--3 days after the Aakd Al Nikaah). I heard lately that I must.. More

  • Wants to know if he is still married

    In 2000 I went to Jordan to get married to a Syrian girl. This was an arranged marriage. Two weeks after meeting her we did the Kaatib al-Kitaab. We spent another two weeks together as husband and wife but we had not consummated the marriage. When I came back to the states I decided not to apply for her papers and thus divorce her. From Jordan,.. More

  • Marriage with: 1) a non-Muslim, 2) an apostate

    If a guy embraces Islaam and his wife embraces later or does not do they need a new (Nikaah) or previous one is enough this is the first and second. One who becomes Murtadd (non-Muslim) and does repentance (Tawbah) whether it is right that if her Iddah has not passed he does not need a new (Nikaah) but if her (Iddah) has passed he needs a.. More

  • Questionable marriage

    He had an affair with his mother's sister's daughter and they both had an intercourse and that lead to a 6th months pregnancy and later both his mother and aunty got settle the matter with mutual understanding and arranged the Nikaah of both girl and boy, while Nikaah girl was conceiving 6th month pregnancy and later they decide not to.. More

  • Muslim girl wants to marry Christian who deceived her

    I know about a Muslim girl who wants to marry a Christian, who has ‎‎deceived her and ‎told her that there is no part of the Holy Quran that clearly ‎‎states that Muslim women ‎can not marry Christians, but only says ‎‎not to marry Mushrikeen (Kuffar). He ‎says that Christians are not ‎‎Mushrikeen (Kuffar) because Mohammed.. More

  • Thinking of marrying an atheist

    I have been away from Islam and done major sins, I have now repented, praying and I stopped what I used to do, regret it and I never want to do it again. I'm reading Qur'an, Hadith and Tafseer to know more. I have 2 questions, so please bear with me. First question I know this girl, who was an atheist and I gave her some things to read... More

  • Doubts that her husband is still a Muslim

    If a man does not prayor practiceIslam except Ramadan, and he smokes hash, does that make him a Kaffir? I do practise my Islam and I love Allah and Islam, and it hurts me very much to see him this way. If he is a Kaffir, must I leave him then? He is very kind to me, and we have 4 children, the youngest of which is now 14 years... More

  • Present wife is still married to previous husband

    I got married three months ago and after completing the marriage I came to know that my wife was already married (marriage is completed yet it is not consummated). My wife and her family hid her first marriage. Now my family insists that I divorce her since our marriage is not valid. What should I do?.. More

  • Married without knowledge of her parents, then separated

    I was married to a Muslim girl without the knowledge of her parents (she was divorced). When we went to the sheik to get married we told him her parents knew about the marriage and they gave their blessing. They live abroad and due to circumstances we couldn’t tell them. A few months later she told me that our marriage does not mean anything.. More

  • This Is Not A Marriage; It Is but Pure Zina

    I have a friend he married a Christian girl in the mosque of the town but the woman is still married to another guy but she doesn't live with him, so is the marriage legal. Should I talk to the cleric who did the marriage? .. More

  • Incest is a double sin but does not nullify marriage

    Does incest nullify marriage? e.g.: A man had sex with his daughter does this nullify marriage with his wife... More