Secret marriage.
Mu' meneen Brothers and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.
(May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)
One of our brothers/sisters has asked
this question:
ASSALAMO
ALAIKUM BURHAN BHAI, I AM IN LOVE WITH A MUSLIM GIRL AND WE WANT TO DO
NIKAAH AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT THE PROBLEM IS THAT OUR PARENTS DONT KNOW ABOUT
IT AND MAY OBJECT TO THIS AT PRESENT BECAUSE AM NOT SETTLED, MY QUESTION TO YOU
TO IS THAT CAN A PERSON DO NIKAAH WITH THE SAME PERSON TWICE WITHOUT TALAAQ?
I WANT
TO DO NIKAAH WITH HER NOW AND THEN AGAIN DO NIKAAH WITH HER WITH OUR PARENTS'
PERMISSION.. PLEASE HELP ME AND REPLY BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.. THANKS. ALLAH
HAFIZ.
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Answer:
Secret marriage
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.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verse 5:
5 …. (Lawful unto you in
marriage) are (not only) chaste women who are believers but chaste women among
the People of the Book revealed before your time when ye give them their due
dowers and desire chastity, not lewdness nor secret intrigues. If anyone rejects faith fruitless is his work
and in the Hereafter he will be in the ranks of those who have lost (all
spiritual good).
Beloved Brother, the guidance of Islam Commands and
Demands that the believers marry desiring chastity, not lewdness and secret
intrigues! It is only those who are
inclined towards the heinous and abomination of the evil of ‘zina’ who develop
lewd and secret intrigues; for the sacred institution of marriage in Islam is a
public affair whereby one is guided and commanded to openly declare one’s
sacred association of marriage to the society one lives in by offering the
‘walima’ or marriage banquet or feast.
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 8.395 Narrated by Anas
The Prophet (saws) seeing a yellow mark (of
perfume) on the clothes of 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Auf, said, "What about
you?" 'Abdur-Rahman replied,
"I have married a woman with a Mahr of gold equal to a date-stone."
The Prophet (saws) said, "May Allah bestow His Blessing on you (in your
marriage). Give a wedding banquet, (Walima) even with one sheep."
For a ‘marriage’ or ‘nikaah’ to be lawful and acceptable
in the Sight of Shariah Law and of Allah Subhanah, the following four
absolutely obligatory conditions of an Islamic ‘nikaah’ have to fulfilled:
- Proposal
by one party and acceptance by the other.
- The
determination of ‘mehr’ for the bride.
- The
availability of at least two witnesses to the marriage contract.
- The
consent of the parents/guardians of the bride to the marriage contract.
As much as it would be against piety, righteousness, and
behavior becoming of a muslim to marry secretly without informing or the
participation of their near and loved ones, if one has fulfilled all the
obligatory conditions of an Islamic marriage, their marriage itself will be
considered lawful in the Sight of Shariah Law.
Your
Question: MY QUESTION TO YOU TO IS THAT CAN A PERSON DO NIKAAH WITH THE SAME
PERSON TWICE WITHOUT TALAAQ? I WANT TO DO NIKAAH WITH HER NOW AND THEN AGAIN DO
NIKAAH WITH HER WITH OUR PARENTS' PERMISSION..
To ‘marry’ someone secretly without informing one’s near
and dear ones would be impiety, unrighteousness, and an abomination in
itself….but to ‘cover’ that secret marriage by performing a ‘fake’ public
‘nikaah’ with the same person would be to make a complete mockery of the Laws
of Shariah and the sacred institution of marriage in the Sight of the Lord Most
Majestic, Most Supreme!
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