{"id":93,"date":"2015-02-25T19:48:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T19:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azmi.co\/cust\/ngba-wp\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2018-10-01T02:10:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T02:10:27","slug":"women-marrying-non-muslim-men","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=93","title":{"rendered":"WOMAN-MARRYING NON-MUSLIM MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the name of All\u0101h,<\/span>
\nthe Beneficent, the Merciful.<\/span>
\nPeace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad.<\/span>
\nDEDICATED TO<\/span>
\nAll\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High,<\/span>
\nLord of the worlds<\/span>
\nAND TO<\/span>
\nMohammad\u2013who brought the world<\/span>
\nto our feet and eternity to our arms.<\/span>
\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MUSLIM WOMEN MARRYING <\/span>NON-MUSLIM MEN<\/span><\/span>
\nDoes Islam permit marriage between a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man? Does the Muslim woman marrying a non-Muslim man renders her an adulterer\/fornicator?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>And marry not the idolatresses until they believe; and certainly a believing maid is better than an idolatress even though she please you. Nor give (believing women) in marriage to idolaters until they believe, and certainly a believing slave is better than an idolater, even though he please you.<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>These invite to the Fire and All\u00e5h invites to the Garden and to forgiveness by His will<\/span>\u00a0<\/i>and He makes clear His messages to men that they may be mindful\u201d\u2013(<\/span>All\u0101h, Qur\u2019an 2:221).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Prophet Mohammad is noted as saying: \u201cA woman is married for four things, i.e., her wealth, her family status, her beauty and her religion. So you should marry the religious woman\u201d\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 7, #27; Muslim Vol. 2, #3457).<\/span> Thus according to this teaching the paramount consideration of a Muslim is to marry for religion.<\/span><\/p>\n

All\u0101h says Muslim women have rights as those against her:\u00a0\u201cAnd women have rights similar to those against them in a just manner, <\/span>and men are a degree above them\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:228);<\/span> and that Muslim men can marry Jewish and Christian women: \u201c<\/span>And the food of those who have been given the Book is lawful for you and your food is lawful for them. <\/span>\u00a0<\/i>And so are the chaste from among the believing women and the chaste from among those who have been given the Book before you\u201d\u2013(<\/span>Qur\u2019an 5:5).<\/span><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 Noticeably, All\u0101h said Muslim men can marry Jewish and Christian women, He did not say Muslim women can marry Jewish and Christian men. In fact of the many places that marriage is mentioned in the Qur\u2019an there is no mention of the Muslim woman being permitted to marry a non-Muslim man. As Muhammad Ali points out in his book The Religion Of Islam<\/i> that <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cwhile there is an express mention of a Muslim man marrying a non-Muslim woman who professes a revealed religion, there is no mention of the legality or illegality of a marriage between a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man. The mere fact however that the Qur\u2019an speaks of the one and not of the other is sufficient to show that marriage between a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man is NOT allowed\u201d\u2013(pp. 597-598. Emphasis added. For this book and MA\u2019s translation of the Qur\u2019an see: www.muslim.org<\/span><\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 That woman has \u201crights\u201d as those against her (as per Qur\u2019an 2:228 above) is no argument for her to marry a non-Muslim man.<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 That the Muslim man can marry a non-Muslim woman is NOT a \u201cright\u201d the man is seeking against the woman; this is a DIVINE DECREE as to what the Muslim man is allowed. All\u0101h has detailed the primary rights and duties of both man and woman.<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 This \u201cright\u201d mentioned in Qur\u2019an 2:228 relates to secondary matters such as personal and family affairs \u2013for instance, if a husband dislikes his wife having certain individuals in the house that he is not comfortable with, likewise he is not to have such individuals in the house that the wife is uncomfortable with;<\/span> This is equity in marriage \u2013giving rights to others that you exact for yourself. <\/span>(It is because of this lack of principle \u2013giving rights to others that one exact for himself\u2013 that the world is wobbly like drunken rats).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Qur\u2019an 5:5 and 2:228 are about different matters. Qur\u2019an 5:5 is about MARRIAGE, and Qur\u2019an 2:228 is about MUTUAL RIGHTS after marriage.<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 Further, whereas woman has rights with man in various avenues they do not have the same rights in all respects. For instance<\/span><\/p>\n

-men are circumcised women are not
\n<\/span>-men are Divinely decreed to maintain women, women are not Divinely decreed to maintain men\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:228)
\n<\/span>-men are given twice the inheritance as a woman\u2019s (because he is maintainer of the family); women have the right to be believed (in the matter of her fidelity) over the man\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:11, 177; 24:6-9)
\n<\/span>-women\u2019s witnessing ability in certain business transaction and under certain conditions is half of man\u2019s\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:282)
\n-men are allowed a limited polygamy of up to four wives; women are not allowed to have more than one husband\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:3). It is doubtful a Muslim man or woman would submit that woman has the \u201cright\u201d to have four husbands (polyandry) because she has similar \u201crights\u201d against man as he has on her. (See <\/span>Islam-polygamy<\/a><\/span>).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 There are three reasons \u2013social, moral, and spiritual\u2013<\/span> why Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Social\u2013<\/i>Islam (not to be confused with un-Islamic practice of some Muslims) has given woman rights that no other religion has given her. By marrying into another religion, the Muslim woman is likely to lose these rights. Even though Jews, Christians, and Hindus may not be practicing their Scriptural laws on women (and heaven lies in following Scripture\/God),<\/span> and even though the Muslim woman may be practicing her faith, yet the Muslim woman in a \u201cmixed-faith\u201d marriage would have relegated herself to the lowly status her husband\u2019s Scripture has subjected her. (See\u00a0<\/span>Christianity-women<\/a>;\u00a0<\/span>Hinduism & women<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Moral<\/i>\u2013As man, generally, is the captain of the house, his Muslim wife may be subjected to the indignity of preparing foods prohibited by Islam and catering to his alcoholic practice. Mostly, she may be coerced or even forced to conform to her husband\u2019s religious belief. To apostatize from Islam is to retreat into religious imperfection (and even into religious darkness as certain doctrines have no Divine foundation)<\/span> \u2013as God\u2019s favor to man was not \u201ccompleted\u201d and man\u2019s religion not \u201cperfected\u201d until the advent of Prophet Mohammad: Qur\u2019an 5:4\u2013<\/span> for no religion can be shown to be superior to, or equal with, Islam. Also, there may be dispute as to whose faith children are to be schooled \u2013or no faith at all; which would be an abdication of her duty. (See next item).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Spiritual<\/i>\u2013All\u0101h says: \u201cThe adulterer cannot have sexual relations with any but an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress, none can have sexual relations with her but an adulterer or an idolater; and it is forbidden to believers\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 24:3. <\/span>The Arabic word zina<\/i> means sexual intercourse between two people who are not married to each and covers both adultery and fornication).\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i>Since the unchaste Muslim man\/woman \u2013even though a believer in Allah<\/strong>\u2013 <\/span>is not allowed to have carnal relations with a chaste Muslim, it is a greater prohibition that a non-Muslim \u2013a disbeliever in Allah<\/strong>\u2013<\/span> have intimacy with a chaste Muslim woman. Muslims are to have physical, moral, and spiritual purity.\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i>All\u0101h requires Muslims to obey Him and the Prophet and to take whatever the Prophet gives us\u2013(Qur\u2019an 3:30-31; 4:69; 59:7 1<\/span><\/sup>):<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -The Prophet gave the Adhan<\/i> (call to prayer, extolling the Unity, Glory, Greatness, and Grandeur of All\u0101h, God; which is the best National Anthem in the entire world)<\/span> into the ear of the newborn\u2013(Abu Dawud Vol. 3, #5086). Will the Christian father allow this \u201ccall\u201d? or will he want the farcical phrase, \u201cIn the name of the Father, son, and Holy Ghost\u201d be recited to the child (There is no documentation that Christ uttered such a phrase; Matthew 28:19 and Mark 16:9-20 <\/span>are \u201cforgeries\u201d in the Bible, see<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Bible corrupt & obsolete<\/a><\/span>). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -Islam requires the male child be circumcised. Will the Hindu husband agree to this? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 -The Prophet recommends Aqiqa<\/i> for a child (thanks-giving to All\u0101h in which two sheep are slaughtered for a male child and one for a female)<\/span> be performed\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 7, #380; Abu Dawud Vol. 2, #2828-2837); in Christianity the child is \u201cChristened\u201d in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (and ascribing Divinity to Jesus and sonship to God is, as All\u0101h says, blasphemy, and its adherents are heading to hell\u2013Qur\u2019an 5:17, 72-73; 18:4-5; 19:88-91).<\/span> So in whose faith will the child be initiated, Islam, Christianity, no faith?<\/span><\/p>\n

-The Prophet enjoined that a child be taught to pray at the age of seven\u2013(Abu Dawud Vol. 1, #495). Will the Christian father allow the child be taught Islam? Or will the Muslim wife be required to forego her Islamic duty and have the child raised a Christian? Or left till he is mature to choose his own faith? <\/span><\/p>\n

-Mahr\/dowry for the Muslim woman is compulsory\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:4, 24-25; 5:5; Abu Dawud Vol. 2, #2979), and a sermon glorifying All\u0101h\u2013(Mishkat Masabih 13:4-ii).2<\/span><\/sup> If these conditions are not fulfilled then, from the Islamic perspective, seems the woman is not married and would be engaging in zina<\/i> (adultery\/fornication). <\/span><\/p>\n

-Will this \u201cmixed-faith\u201d marriage be conducted in Islam AND the religion of the man or will it only be a \u201csignature\u201d wedding before a Justice of the peace? <\/span><\/p>\n

If the marriage is a mixture of Islam and Christianity or Islam and Hinduism this would be a mixture of truth with falsehood (as there are no Divine doctrines as Trinity, inherited sin, and vicarious atonement; and Karma and Reincarnation)3<\/span><\/sup>.<\/span><\/span> And All\u0101h prohibits the mixing of truth with falsehood\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:42).<\/span><\/p>\n

If the marriage is a mixture of Islam and Judaism this also would be improper, for though Judaism teaches the pure monotheism as Islam there is no Divine doctrine as \u201cchosen people\u201d to the exclusion of others based on race or nationality; and as Judaism was Divinely decreed to end upon the advent of Prophet Mohammad \u2013and the Jewish Fathers knew that Mohammad was the Prophet foretold in the Bible (Qur\u2019an 26:192-197; 46:10)\u2013<\/span> then, as Muhammad Ali states, \u201cspiritually the Jewish religion has no future.\u201d (See\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Judaism<\/a><\/span>). Thus, for the Muslim woman to marry according to the rites of Judaism is to defy (knowingly or unknowingly) the decree of All\u0101h.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If the marriage is a \u201csignature\u201d one only, this would make the marriage, from the Islamic perspective, devoid of Divine prescription; (whereby jurists may conclude there is no marriage and the woman would be engaging in zina<\/i> \u2013adultery\/fornication).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When a chaste believing non-Muslim woman marries a chaste Muslim man he not only respects, honors and cherishes her but brings her into spiritual purity \u2013into the Purity of God4<\/span><\/sup>\u2013 <\/span>and gives her rights alongside man from the cradle all the way to Jannah\/Paradise.5<\/span><\/sup><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>If the non-Muslim man was following the teachings of his prophet \u2013not what is passing under the name of these prophets\u2013<\/span> he would be a Muslim; and would have no alternative but to take the further step and follow Mohammad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Muslim women are not to convert to their non-Muslim husband\u2019s religion. (That we all follow the same God is misleading. While there is only one God what is significant is one\u2019s concept of God. For the Islamic concept of God, see\u00a0<\/span>Allah<\/a><\/span>\u00a0or\u00a0HOME<\/a><\/span>).
\n<\/span>Muslim women are to enlighten their non-Muslim husbands:<\/p>\n