Re: Mutah [temporary marriage] in the time of Amir ul Momineen Ali ibn Abi Talib
Women on that website, www.mutah.com, have written quite a different perspective on Mutah than you do, one of them who is a convert.
Also Mutah marriages do not have to be consummated, they can be used for the couple to get to know one another.
I had many college friends who were Sunni, religous as well, yet still dated. Now I don’t know if they had sexual relations when they were dating, we had conflicting reports on those; guys said yes we had sex all the time, while the girls said no I’m still a virgin, etc. The point is that they were engaged in unlawful activities by the basis of Islam.
Why didn’t they just do Mut’ah and made their relationship halaal? I posed them this question, and they said Mutah was haraam. But isn’t what they are doing haraam in any case? They call themselves Muslims, both the guy and the girl, yet they still engage in haraam activities.
PCG asked about our women, such as our daughters being given to mutah marriage.
If I do have a daughter, I’d prefer her to have a non-sexual mutah marriage, than a dating relationship where there is more a chance of her engaging in haram activities.