Nikkah

[Sa1eem]

Re: Nikkah

@redvelvet

Here are some questions and I wonder what the Islamic rulings are on them:

Please let me give you answer according to my knowledge and belief. I can go in detail and give arguments to support my answers, but I am leaving that here, as in past I have already given answers to these (or similar) questions with reasonable arguments on this forum.

1. If you marry a Muslim and then later down the road…they decide to abandon Islam and choose to become an atheist or an agnostic or a polytheist…does that nullify the nikkah? Or does the nikkah stay in-tact?;

Nikah will stay intact and would not get nullified.

If someone is married to atheist, agnostic or polytheist (weather the person has changed after marriage or was like that before marriage) and do not want to continue in marriage than that person has to initiate Talaq or Khula to get the marriage dissolved.

2. Muslim men are allowed to marry women who are among the People of the Book (Jews and Christians). But is the condition that they be practicing? And if they are not practicing… nor even sure of their faith…is such a marriage not allowed? And is conversion to Islam a mandatory condition for the marriage or no?

Muslim men are allowed to marry virtuous women from people of the book. As far as Islam is concerned, someone who believes that Isa (AS) is son of God cannot be considered as believing women, hence one should avoid marry such women. In present day of permissive western society, it is difficult to say that virtuous women exists, and thus they should be avoided.

Note: It is not that a Muslim (men or women) cannot marry a non-Muslim or unbeliever (men or women), but is it that a Muslims should not marry an unbeliever (men or women). If a Muslim would marry an unbeliever than marriage would be valid, but it would be sin.

3. If let’s say there’s an individual (regardless of gender) who was born to Muslim parents but neither practices the faith nor do they believe that Islam is truth…is nikkah with such a person even valid? What is the shariah ruling on this? One might argue that the difference between a Muslim and a Kafir is namaz and there are plenty of Muslims who don’t pray and get married. I know that. But…there 's a difference between someone who is slack in prayers but believes in the kalima and believes that Islam is the truth…and someone who neither practices nor believes it’s the truth. So is such a nikkah even valid?

I think after answer of above two questions, this question becomes irrelevant.