Re: Nikkah is MARRIAGE
Therefore nikkah and consumation are two different things … consumation makes iddat necessary not nikkah … in which case the rasum that is performed for rukhsati (symbolises) that consumation will thereafter begin … am I right?
You don’t need to have a rasum for it … one can simply move in with the husband and that will be taken as consumation. However even that is not necessarily consumation … but one thing is clear nikkah itself is not what makes the couple considered “fully married” by Islamic law … although it makes it full permissible for them to be together.