{"id":1650,"date":"2011-08-26T15:55:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T15:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2011-08-26T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T15:55:38","slug":"marriage-in-jest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/marriage-in-jest\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage in Jest"},"content":{"rendered":"<table dir=\"ltr\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">Marriage in jest<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the aforementioned scenario the marriage will be done.\u00a0 Saaiduna Abu Hurairah Radiallahu Anhu narrates that the Prophet of Allah Sallallahu Alahi Wasalam said \u201cThree things \u2013 their seriousness is serious and their jesting is serious: Marriage, Divorce and Rajaat (revoking the divorce to the wife)\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 (Mishkaatul Masaabeeh p.284)<\/p>\n<p>There are two conditions for an Islamic marriage to be valid.\u00a0 Firstly, the man or his representative or the woman or her representative or her custodian (i.e. her father, brother, uncle etc.) say the statement of offer and acceptance. These statements should be said in the past tense, or one of them expressing the past and the other the future, such as one saying, &#8220;Marry (your daughter) to me&#8221; and the other saying, &#8220;I have married (her) to you&#8221;. \u00a0\u00a0Secondly, the physical presence of two free, adult, sane, Muslim male witnesses, or one man and two women, whether they be morally upright (adil) or non-upright. (Mukhtasar Quduuri p.140)<\/p>\n<p>In the situation you mentioned above, as the boy and girl uttered statements which indicated offer and acceptance and two witnesses were present, the marriage will be done despite having been done so in jest.<\/p>\n<p>Only Allah Knows Best<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/p>\n<p>Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage in jest In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.\u00a0\u00a0 Answer In the aforementioned scenario the marriage will be done.\u00a0 Saaiduna&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}