Nikkah

Thornewood9 · February 11, 2015, 9:38am

Re: Nikkah

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

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?

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?

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?

Nikkah is nullified if one spouse becomes a disbeliever. When the Prophet pbuh was called to Islam his daughter was married to hazrat Uthman RA. When the Prophet pbuh told him he couldn’t stay married to his daughter because she was now Muslim hazrat Uthman RA became Muslim. Plenty of examples of this happening during prophets time.
If they aren’t practising then they don’t follow the condition that they are “people of the book”. Unfortunately Muslims today don’t follow this condition as t should be followed. Conversion to Islam is not mandatory but if they don’t even follow Christianity or Judaism then they are not people of the book and marriage is not valid with them.
Wouldn’t think so. You’d need to consult an imam or alim about that. But the condition for Nikkah does include that the two consenting parties be Muslim or the woman should at least be " people of the book " so if that condition isn’t met then I’d assume that the marriage is not valid. Allah knows best.

Sammi4ever making you think about this RV?