just wanted some knoldge on this, can you marry non-muslims without the other converting.
i heard that only men are allowed to marry non-muslims as there children will be brought up as muslims, but women arnt allowed to marry non-muslims.
Re: marrying a non-muslim
i married to a christian girl.....and she is still a believer of her faith .....
and we have been married for 5 yearz.....
Re: marrying a non-muslim
Muslim men are allowed to marry chaste women from the People of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), in the hope that the truths within the Torah/Gospel will act as a stepping stone towards Islam, but they must must bring up their children as Muslims. Marriage to other Kuffaar such as the Hindus, Sikhs, Agnostics or Athiests is not allowed.
A lot of people marry athiest girls who are Christian in name only and not in the least chaste, that is not allowed.
I wouldn't reccommend marrying a Christian/Jewish girl at all when living in the West because it will hard to bring the kids up as Muslims, and say you break up she'll get custody for the children and God forbid they'll be brought up as Kuffaar, look at the Misbah Rana case, she's lucky she kept her religion but a lot of children loose it.
Muslim women are only allowed to marry Muslim men.
Re: marrying a non-muslim
If one cares about the faith enough to ask that question, then we need to be honest with ourselves: what is more important anyway. The girl, or the faith.
Smurf is correct, but in practice, you'll be able to marry a girl even if she's Christian by name. The people performing the Nikkah won't exactly perform tests to determine if she 'qualifies'...
All is typically fine until children arrive on the scene. If you're going to take the attitude that the children will decide, then really...faith isn't an issue, is it? If you want to bring up your children as Muslims...then you should be aware that your wife may be okay with this...but will she be willing to act on it? Otherwise, she'll be a potential source of contradiction.
How can you tell your kids that Muslims don't drink...if your wife is having a glass of wine while you're telling your kids this? Be realistic on this...I say this from observation. One spouse almost always gives in to the other.
As one could expect, you'll have three possible outcomes. Your kids will take on your faith, your kids will take on the faith of their mother...or they'll abandon faith altogether. Personally, I observe the latter most often..i.e. the kids just don't bother with religion.