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as per some islamic scholars a muslim boy cannot marry a non mulsim girl but if she agress to change her religion is this marriage complete? and after that is she again follow her first religion then what will be the consequenses for the same. pls revert.

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Revert for 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.

Your Question: …as per some islamic scholars a muslim boy cannot marry a non mulsim girl

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 221:

221 Do not marry unbelieving women (idolaters) until they believe; a slave woman who believes is better than an unbelieving woman even though she allure you. Nor marry (your girls) to unbelievers until they believe: a man slave who believes is better than un unbeliever even though he allure you. Unbelievers 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 Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verse 5 (part):

(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).

Allah Subhanah has guided the believing men to marry eligible chaste woman from amongst the believers, or eligible chaste women from amongst the ‘People of the Book’ (ie. Jews or Christians).

It is absolutely forbidden and prohibited in Islam for a believer to marry a woman of any faith other than Islam, Jewism, or Chrisitianity….unless and until she chooses to believe first.

Your Question: but if she agress to change her religion is this marriage complete? and after that is she again follow her first religion then what will be the consequenses for the same

If the disbelieving woman, of her own free will, chooses to believe and declares the ‘shahaadah’ or testimony of faith….she will be considered a believer in the Sight of Shariah Law and of the believers and every right that is due to a believer will be accorded to her in full; and it would be permissible and lawful for a believer to marry her, if indeed they wish to do so.

If the disbelieving woman does not wish to accept ‘Islam’ as her way of life, but merely declares the ‘shahaadah’ to enable her to marry a believer….or Allah forbid, the believer who wishes to marry her conspires with her to merely verbally declare the ‘shahaadah’ so that the two of them can get legally married under Shariah Law….although the marriage itself would be lawful and legal in the Sight of Shariah Law and the believers in the life of this world, both of them would be guilty of trying to circumvent and making a mockery of the Laws of Allah Subhanah, and they will be held severely accountable for their lies and their deceit in the Presence of their Lord Creator on that Inevitable and Tumultuous Day of Justice.

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