{"id":25455,"date":"2022-06-02T21:22:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=25455"},"modified":"2022-06-02T21:22:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:22:13","slug":"marrying-a-non-muslim-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/marrying-a-non-muslim-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Marrying a Non-Muslim Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 06086<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: Maulana Mohammed Dilwar Hussain<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I have had very strong feelings for a non-muslim for 22 years. Do I tell him I would like to marry him and about how I feel?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><u><strong>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><u><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Allah Ta\u2019\u0101l\u0101 has prohibited Muslims from marrying anybody from any other faith. Muslims can only marry other Muslims. This is the rule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cDo not marry unbelieving women (idolaters), until they believe: A slave woman who believes is better than an unbelieving woman, even though she allures you. Nor marry (your girls) to unbelievers until they believe: A man slave who believes is better than an unbeliever, even though.\u201d [Surah Al Baqarah; 2:221] [1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">However, an exception to the rule has been made in another verse,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cLawful unto you in marriage are chaste women who are believers and chaste women among the Ahlul Kitab (Jews &amp; Christians).\u201d <em>[Surah Ma\u2019idah; 5:5] [2]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The exception is limited only to men marrying Christian and Jewish. One of the reasons explained for tis exception is because any children which would be born from this marriage, it was safe to assume that the children would adopt the religion of the father (i.e., that the children would also be Muslims).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">It is not permissible for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man. 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