What I know that even if any one person of a Muslim couple do some SHIRK, their NIKKAH is broken, then how it is allowed to marry a person who believs in 3 gods?
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Dir sir,
Assalam-u-Alaikum,
I have read both
of answers against questions of muslim
men marrying christian women. In your answer you have
given the refrence of the "Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verse 5". But what I believe and also
heard from many people (may Allah forgive me if
I am wrong) that
this permission is only for those PEOPLE OF BOOK who follow the ORIGINAL BOOK
WHICH WAS GIVEN BY ALLAH AND NOT THE ONE WHICH HAS BEEN ALTERED BY HUMANS. The reason is that because of that
alteration, the
religion has changed alot and many
things which were not allowed originaly were allowed later.
Is the original
Bible exist today in its original form? If not, then that book is not the
book of Allah, and its followers are not that people towards which that verse
is pointing to.
What I know that
even if any one person of a Muslim couple do some SHIRK, their NIKKAH is
broken, then how it is allowed to marry a person who believs
in 3 gods?
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Answer:
Why is marriage
allowed between Muslim
and the People of the Book who commit Shirk?
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.
Your Question: But what I believe and also heard from many
people (may Allah forgive me if I am wrong) that this permission is only for
those PEOPLE OF BOOK who follow the ORIGINAL BOOK WHICH WAS GIVEN BY ALLAH AND
NOT THE ONE WHICH HAS BEEN ALTERED BY HUMANS.
The reason is that because of that alteration, the religion has changed alot and many things which were not allowed originaly were allowed later.
When the aayah of Surah Maidah,
giving the permission for the believers to marry the women from
the People of the Book was revealed in the Glorious Quran, the Christians of the time, used to believe
in Prophet Jesus (a.s.) as the son of God, and in the Doctrine of Trinity. Allah Subhanah
admonished them for their this dis-belief
and shirk in the Glorious Quran itself!
But still, the permission to marry their chaste women was given to the
believers.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 19 Surah Maryam
verses 88-92:They say that the Merciful has begotten a
son! What an absurd thing that you have
invented! It is well near that the skies are ready
to burst, and the earth to split
asunder, and the mountains to crumble
down in utter ruin at this hideous thing that they should ascribe a son to the
Most Merciful! For it is not consonant
with the Majesty of (Allah) the Most Merciful that He should beget a son!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah
verse 72:Most certainly they committed blasphemy who
said, “Allah, He is indeed the Messiah, son of Mary!”, whereas the Messiah (Jesus) had said, “O
children of
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah
verse 73:Most certainly they committed blasphemy, who said, “God is one of the three”; whereas, there is no deity other than the One
Deity. And if these people do not
desist from uttering such words, a painful chastisement shall be
inflicted on all those from among them who have been guilty of blasphemy. Will they not, then,
turn to Allah and ask His Pardon?
Allah is very Forgiving and Compassionate.
Even though Allah has severely
admonished the Christians for their shirk of ascribing
a son to the Majestic Lord, and their doctrine of Trinity; Allah has still
allowed the believers to marry the women from the People of the Book. It is not like the Christians started
believing in Jesus as the son of God, or in the doctrine of Trinity after
the Quran was revealed! They used to
believe in it, even
as the Quran was being revealed.
All the scholars of Islam are
unanimous in their opinion,
that if a believer marries a woman from among the People of the
Book; the marriage will be deemed legal
and valid in Islamic Law and Shariah.
Brother, if the argument that
this applies to only those People of the Book who followed the Original Book
revealed on Prophet Jesus (a.s.) is taken, then there would be
no need for this law….for all the people who followed the Original Book
revealed on Prophet Jesus (a.s.), were believers! Allah Subhanah
has Himself admonished the People of the Book in the Glorious Quran for
altering the Divine Books with their own hands, and changing their
beliefs…..and inspite of that, the All Knowing, All Wise,
has permitted the believers to marry chaste women from among the People
of the Book, if they chose to do so.
Your Question: Is the original Bible exist today in its
original form? If not, then that book is not the book of Allah, and its
followers are not that people towards which that verse is pointing to.
The Truth is brother, the
Original Injeel or Gospel which was revealed to
Prophet Jesus (a.s.), and the original Tauraat which was revealed to Prophet Moses (a.s.),
is not available in its original form today; nor was it available in its original form when
the Quran was being revealed to the Last and Final Messenger of Allah, Mohamed ar-Rasool
Allah (saws)! It is not as if the
Divine Books of the Jews and the Christians were altered after the Glorious
Quran was sent down….they had already altered their Divine Books before the
arrival of the Glorious Quran. But
Allah Subhanah has still addressed the people who
believed in the Prophet Moses (a.s.) as Jews, and the people who
believed in the Prophet Jesus (a.s.) as
Christians; and thus all the laws in
the Quran regarding the People of the Book applied to the Jews and the
Christians at the time of the Prophet Mohamed (saws), as they apply to them in this day and
age, and until the end of time.
Your Question: What
I know that even if any one person of a Muslim couple do some SHIRK, their
NIKKAH is broken, then how it is allowed to marry a person who believs in 3 gods?
If one declares the testification of faith of Islam that there is no god except
Allah Alone, and
Mohamed (saws) is the Last and Final Messenger of Allah; he will be deemed a muslim. No matter what he does or does not do, he will be accorded
all the rights that are due to a muslim. He will be eligible to marry amongst the
believers, he
will be allowed to visit the Sacred Mosque,
he will be given a muslim burial, etc. If a person calls himself a muslim,
but is involved in the heinous sin of shirk……he will still remain
a muslim; and
in the eyes of Islamic Law and Shariah, his marriage to a believing woman will be
valid. Allah Subhanah
has not made it the duty of the believers to decide whether one, who has
declared the testification of faith, is to remain in the Muslim Ummah or not. The
decision of who was a true muslim according to the
guidance of Allah and His Messenger (saws), and who was not a true muslim,
will be decided by Allah Subhanah on
the Day of Judgement!
That is the precise reason why
the Messenger of Allah (saws) did not take action against the hypocrites in
Thus it is not true that if a
person who calls himself a muslim, but has wronged
his own soul by involving himself in the heinous sin of Shirk, his ‘nikaah’ with a believing woman will be invalid or
broken! The ‘nikaah’
will remain valid in the sight of Shariah and Islamic
Law, and all the rights that are due to a muslim will
be accorded to him; unless of course, the person himself declares that he is an
apostate and a disbeliever. But if he
calls himself a muslim, even though none of his
actions are in accordance with the Quran and Sunnah; he will still be
considered a muslim in the sight of Shariah.
Your Question: then
how it is allowed to marry a person who believs in 3
gods?
Allah Subhanah
has Himself admonished the Christians for the belief in Trinity in the Glorious
Quran; and even then,
He has permitted the believers to marry the chaste women among
them! And if one studies the
chronology of the Revelation of the aayahs of the
Glorious Quran, he
will realize that the aayah regarding the
admonishment of the belief of Trinity predates the aayah
of Surah Maidah permitting
the believers to marry the chaste women from among the People of the Book!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah
verse 73:Most certainly they committed blasphemy, who
said, “God is one of the three”; whereas, there is no deity other than the One
Deity. And if these people do not
desist from uttering such words, a painful chastisement shall be inflicted on
all those from among them who have been guilty of blasphemy. Will they not, then, turn to Allah and ask
His Pardon? Allah is very Forgiving and Compassionate.
All the scholars of Islam are
unanimous in their opinion, that if a believer marries a woman from among the
People of the Book; the marriage will be deemed legal and valid in Islamic Law
and Shariah.
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