[Marrying One Whose Religion Is Not Acceptable]
Question: May a man marry his noble daughter to someone of corrupt creed—whether his creed is deviant or otherwise?
Total available fatwas: 516
[Ruling on Marriage to a Flagranly Sinful Person, a Hypocrite, or Someone of a Different Madhhab]
Question: What is the ruling on a Sunni marrying a Shi‘i and vice-versa; a Makramī marrying a Zaydī and vice-versa; a flagrantly sinful person (fāsiq) marrying a believing woman and vice-versa; and a hypocrite (munāfiq) marrying a believing woman and...
[What Is Obligatory upon a Husband If His Wife Is Disobedient and Persistently Sins]
Question: If a wife is disobedient to Allah and persists in her disobedience, what is obligatory upon the husband?
[What Should the Wife of a Man Who Denies Life After Death and Rejects Heaven and Hell Do?]
Question: There is an irreligious man whom his wife sometimes hears denying life after death and rejecting Paradise and Hell; sometimes his children hear him as well. He sometimes prays as a mere formality in front of people. What is...
[What Should a Woman Do If Her Husband Does Not Pray and Is Unconcerned with Sinning?]
Question: A woman has a husband who does not pray and is unconcerned about committing sins. She has children from him and she is a believer. What is obligatory upon her? Must she separate from him and leave him?
[A Woman Whose Husband Became Insane, and She Did Not Annul—Then, When She Despaired, She Annulled]
Question: A woman was married for years. Then the husband fell into insanity. She remained with him, enabled him (sexually), and tended to his needs—doing so because she hoped for his recovery, expected he would get better, and assumed that...
[Is It Permissible for a Husband Who Finds His Wife Not a Virgin to Ask Her Why?]
Question: If a husband finds his wife not a virgin, is it permissible for him to press her with questions, to query her insistently and argue, or is that impermissible?
[Ruling on a Woman Retracting What She Had Remitted of the Dowry]
Question: If a husband asks his wife for, say, some of her gold, and she gives it to him and waives her claim; then he later divorces her and she demands the gold back—he says, “You absolved me and waived...
[A Woman’s Entitlement to What Is Mentioned in the Contract—even if Intended for Someone Else]
Question: A marriage contract was concluded for a woman, and her guardian stipulated for her a dowry, gold jewelry, clothing, etc. The husband accepted and married her. After some time he came to dislike his wife and divorced her. A...
[On a Guardian’s Demanding Money for Himself Apart from the Dowry2]
Question: Two men, each of whom has a son and a daughter, agreed that each would marry his daughter to the other’s son, with the dowry for each girl specified—i.e., this is not shighār. They wrote an agreement between them...