Cousin Marriage ... Islam Allows it but.....

[phoenixdesi]

Re: Cousin Marriage … Islam Allows it but…

@smooth_guy

I am not questioning your intentions either. I know you have a genuine concern. But Islamic laws are here to stay till day of judgement and we don’t know what circumstances one might come across in future. But in past and even present if someone is in an isolated desert setting and there is only handful of households, what that poor guy will do. His best bet would be to marry his daughter within the family, instead of giving her hand to a complete stranger.
There could be numerous other scenarios where cousin marriage will come handy. And having cousins marriage randomly in every 4th or 7th generation would not have the same impact as we are seeing in Mirpuri community in UK or villages in general in Pakistan. People do marry in family to save wealth and other self imposed restrictions due to their lack of education. Their continuous act for generations/centuries has highlighted and magnified this issue. Otherwise a random cousin marriage should not be a big health issue.

I blame lack of education as the core issue here. Ulema, community leaders and desi doctors can educate the masses (specially those who lived entire lives in west but their brains are stuck in pinds).

I absolutely respect and cheer the flexibility shown by islam by allowing marrying to your cousins…but obviously human beings will always misuse flexibilities…and muslims have indeed done that in this case …and that is why we have ijtihad/ijma/qiyas concept…at some point if this issue gets out of control, we muslims need to think abt it from a fresh perspective and even consider banning it if needed. that is all