Nikkah without Rukhsati

[Brit_Chick]

@PyariCgudia

Lusi, then what is the point of the nikkah then, if they can’t live together for whatever reasons? (ex. schooling, or jobs, or immigration).

Once you are married, you are responsible for one another and you should be living together. Period. I can understand if its an immigration issue, and you get the nikkah done and then your partner has to wait until he/she can come over. But the Rukhsati can be done back home, and the marriage can be consummated as soon as the nikkah is read.

But this other nonsense - like oh, i’m here, and my spouse is there, and for what?? Either get married, and live together and be there for each other, or just hold the nikkah off until you can.

Simple.

It’s too unreasonable to get someone married off and then they can’t even be with their spouse.

Concept of Rukhsati is not Islamic. In Islam, the NIKKAH = Wedding. So once the nikkah is done, you are free to run off with that person, live with them, have their babies, and the whole kitten kaboodle.

Couldn’t have put it better myself. Quite frankly, some of the reasons people give for delaying rukhsati are - in my opinion - quite pathetic ie we can’t afford to live together yet cos of work/education issues (so don’t get married then ) or we want time to adjust to being husband and wife and other equally ridiculous justifications.