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Are we allowed to marry Mushriks?

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If you get married to some other community person, how does that fit with Islam?

 

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Are we allowed to marry ‘Mushriks’?

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and who-ever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 221: Do not marry ‘mushrik’ (unbelieving) women unless they believe a slave woman who believes is better than an unbelieving woman, even though she allure you………Likewise, do not wed your women to ‘mushrik’ men unless they believe a man slave who believes is better than an unbeliever, even though he allure you……..The ‘mushrik’ people invite you to the Fire, while Allah by His grace invites you to the Garden and His Pardon, and He makes His revelations plain to the people so that they should learn a lesson and follow the admonition.

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verse 5: Likewise you are permitted to marry believing chaste women, and chaste women from among the people of the Book (Jews and Christians), provided that you give them their due ‘mahr’ and desire chastity, not lewdness, nor sected intrigues.

 

Thus according to Islam in light of the above and other aayahs of the Holy Quran, and the traditions of the Prophet (saws), the following guidance should be followed:

 

For a man:

Allowed to marry any chaste muslim women.

Allowed to marry chaste women of the People of the Book (Jews and Christians).

Not allowed to marry any ‘mushrik’ women (Hindus, Sikhs, Budhist, etc), unless they believe.

 

For a woman:

Allowed to marry any chaste muslim man.

Not allowed to marry men from the People of the Book (Jews and Christians), unless they believe.

Not allowed to marry ‘mushrik’ men, unless they believe.

 

 

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