My question is that I`m from Ismailia community. I`m 30 now and I had stopped practicing my faith after understanding the teachings of the Quran at the age of 19.
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As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
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Dear
Brother Assalaamu Aleikum!
My question is that I`m from
I
can`t marry other than Ismaili. And if I know my deen well then I change my
husband`s mind. Is it only for a man that he can marry a non-muslim woman or
can a woman also marry a non-muslim man?
Your sister in Islam
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Answer:
Marry aga khani Ismaili
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 none 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 the problem is that we can`t marry oustside our
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah
Baqarah verse 221:
Nor marry
(your girls) to disbelievers until they believe: a man slave who believes is better than un unbeliever even though
he allure you. Disbelievers do (but)
beckon you to the Fire. But Allah
beckons by His Grace to the Garden (of Bliss) and forgiveness, and makes His
Signs clear to mankind: that they may celebrate His Praise.
Allah Subhanah, your Lord and Creator, and the Sole Master
and Sustainer of everything in Creation has declared that is legal and lawful
for a believing woman to marry any eligible (non-mehram) man from amongst the
believers.
When Allah Subhanah Himself has made lawful for you to
choose to marry one eligible from amongst the absolutely vast believing
community…why would one wish to restrict their choice to seek to marry from
only amongst the community they were born into and have subsequently left
because of their practice of falsehood???
Your
Question: ….The reason is that, if we marry oustside with a muslim then what`s
the surity that the man is true and a believing muslim.
There are literally a million ways to check if the person
who claims to be a muslim is indeed God-fearing and a true believer….but if you
marry one from your prior community, you are almost guaranteed that that person
is a believer of utter and manifest falsehood at its best, and a doer of
‘shirk’ at its worst!
Your
Question: Is it sinful to marry an Ismaili despite knowing that I`m not
following that faith?
Because the believers of the Ismaili faith verbally
declare belief in the Absolute Oneness of Allah Subhanah and the appointment of
Prophet Mohamed (saws) as the Last and Final of Messenger of Allah, they will
be considered legal muslims in the sight of the Law.
But since you were born into that faith, and your Lord
subsequently blessed you to understand and align your beliefs to the guidance
of the Glorious Quran…..you would know better than anyone else, the major
‘discrepancies’ and ‘differences’ that exist between the faith you were born
into and the Truth of the Glorious Quran!
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 1.15 Narrated by Anas
The Prophet (saws) said, "Whoever
possesses the following three qualities will have tasted the ‘sweetness
(delight) of faith’:
1. The one to whom Allah and His Messenger
(saws) becomes dearer than anything else.
2. One
who loves a person and he loves him only for Allah's Sake.
3. One who hates to revert to disbeleif
as he hates to be thrown into the fire."
Respected sister in Islam, maybe it is time that your
heart should taste the ‘sweetness of faith’….ie. to hate to revert back to
disbelief just as one hates to be thrown into the Fire!
Your
Question: I can`t marry other than Ismaili.
Why not??? The
reason you have given earlier ‘what`s the surity that the man is true and a believing
muslim’ is just not good or sound
enough!
Your
Question: And if I know my deen well then I change my husband`s mind.
What if you don’t know your ‘deen’ enough? What then??
What if even after your best intentions and efforts, you are unable to
change the beliefs your husband has been born into? What then??
If knowing one’s deen of Islam well was reason enough to
marry one who practices disbelief and shirk….then the Lord All Knowing, All
Wise would have made it lawful for the believers to marry disbelievers….but in
His Absolute Wisdom and Perfect Knowledge, the Lord Most Majestic Most Supreme
has categorically prohibited the believers
from marrying idolatrous disbelievers!
We reiterate again sister, that followers of even the
orthodox ‘Ismaili’ faith verbally declare the Absolute Oneness of Allah
Subhanah and the appointment of Prophet Mohamed (saws) as the Last and Final Messenger….thus
legally it would be lawful for a believer to marry amongst them. But when one knows with absolute conviction
that the practice of their deen encourages them to practice ‘kufr’ and
‘shirk’…..it would only be prudence and intelligence that the believers do not
bring upon themselves a trial which they might not have the ability to
bear!
If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and
commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of never ever being misled; but if one believes, obeys and follows any
other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be
assured of being led astray.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only
due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister