I know it says in the Quran that Muslim men are allowed to marry Christian or Jewish women. What I don’t understand is, can that one thing really apply to modern-day life? I know that everything in Islam is for eternity, but I was wondering about this today:
See the thing is, there’s so many rules and restrictions regarding relatoinships and interactions between men and women. Now, I’m assuming those rules apply to Muslim men regarding non-Muslm women as well. From wat I understand, they are still obligated to lower their gaze, and control themselves.
Now, in the time of the Prophet :saw: there were many widowed Christian and Jewish women and that’s why the men were allowed to marry them. But nowadays, 1) would Christian/Jewish women really understand the whole “lower your gaze” thing?
Another thing, parents are obligated to raise their kids as good Muslims. Ninety percent of the time children end up following their mother’s religion. So why should a strongly religious Christian woman abandon her beliefs to follow her husband’s by shielding her faith from her own children?
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*Originally posted by armughal: *
a non-muslim wife is not to be forced to accept Islam....
and it was only ahl-e-kitaab because they were too following the right Books sent down by Allah through his righteous messengers....
others were not found fit for marriage because of their misconceptions on the tawheed (oneness) of Allah....
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I know she's not forced to accept his religion. What I meant was that Islam requires us to raise our children to be Muslims. If a father wants to raise his kids to be muslim and muslim only, doens't it make sense that he marry a muslim woman? and if she is so into her own beliefs, why shudn't she raise her kids to be Christian?
i know of cases of interfaith marraiges where some of the kids are more into thier mother's islamic faith/sect, rather than their fathers. so does ijtihad apply here?
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and if she is so into her own beliefs, why shudn't she raise her kids to be Christian?
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she can if she wants to, but islamically the spouse will be held responsible for the non muslim kids. so its his choice.
no they cant. that’s one of the biggest sins a Muslim (or non-muslim…wat can they be called???) can commit. it’s like saying… F you to the prophet :saw: and Allah :swt: and the whole belief system. You can repent for every single sin u commit, except for shirk.