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Sex when engaged

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As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.  (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)

 

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DEAR BURHAN, WILL YOU PLEASE LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ARE COUPLES ALLOWED TO HAVE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WHEN THEY ARE ENGAGED THAK YOU

 

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Sex when engaged

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever 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.

 

Dear and Beloved Sister in Islam, engagement or a commitment between a man and a woman to marry has absolutely no legal basis or role in Shariah; unless and until the actual ‘Nikaah’ is performed where in presence of two witnesses and the guardian of the bride, the groom proposes to marry the woman for a determined amount of ‘mehr’, and the bride accepts his proposal.

 

Only after the ‘Nikaah’ contract is completed, will the man and the woman be husband and wife, and permitted to conjugate with each other.

 

The ‘engagement’ as we know it today has absolutely no legal basis or role in Shariah, and it would be absolutely illegal and a grave sin in the sight of Allah Subhanah if the man and woman were to have sexual intercourse before their ‘nikaah’.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your Brother in Islam,

 

 

Burhan

 

 


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