Re: Nikkah
Well this is where the debate comes in. In Qur’an it does state that Muslim men are allowed to marry “chaste women’ who are of the “people of the book”. However we do also know that there were different sects of Christianity at the time of Rasoolullah SAW and some of these sects did not believe in the " Jesus is God/son of God”. If you look at it logically anyone who claims Jesus is the son of God or even God Himself, well that’s shirk right there. That’s not monotheism. And that’s why some scholars don’t actually believe that we are allowed to marry those Christians that believe that. This question would need an in depth study of the Christians at the time of the Prophet and whether the Prophet pbuh approved of Muslims marrying their women. The thing is during the Prophets time (pbuh) the man was the one who had legal responsibility over his children not the mother. So the father could decide on what his children would have faith in despite the mothers religion or even her thoughts on the matter. Today that isnt the case. And Allah knows best. 