Girl wishes to marry a married man.
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:
if a girl wants to get married with a married man with
out hurting anyone and with out having any illicit relation with that man, what
does islam says abut it and under which conditions it can be fulfiled.
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Answer:
Girl wishes to marry
a married man
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 4 Surah Nisaa verse 3:
3 If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans
marry women of your choice two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal
justly (with them) then only one or (a captive) that your right hands
possess. That will be more suitable to
prevent you from doing injustice.
Respected sister in Islam, if
you are a believer, single, and eligible, you are well within your rights to
seek to marry a believer who is either single or has not exhausted his limit of
having a maximum of four wives at any one time.
The only condition Shariah Law
places on the man who seeks to marry for a second time is that he be confident
he will be able to deal justly amongst his multiple wives….and the condition
Islam places on the woman who wishes to become the second (or third or fourth
wife) is that she does not coerce or imply that the man divorce his other
wife/wives to marry her.
Sunan of Abu-Dawood
Hadith 2128 Narrated by Abu Hurayrah
The Prophet (saws)
said: ‘When a man has two wives and he is inclined to one of them, he will come
on the Day of resurrection with a side hanging down.’
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 8.598 Narrated by Abu
Huraira
Allah's Messenger
(saws) said, "No woman should ask for the divorce of her sister (Muslim)
so as to take her place, but she should marry the man (without compelling him
to divorce his other wife), for she will have nothing but what Allah has Decreed
for her."
If none of the above conditions
are violated, the man and the woman are well within their rights in Shariah Law
to seek to perform a ‘nikaah’ between them.
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