Nikkah

[redvelvet]

Re: Nikkah

@Thornewood9

2. 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.

I remember I had asked this question in a former thread and you had answered it there and then I had asked a follow-up question about…which maybe wasn’t answered…don’t quite remember now.

But when we say “People of the Book”…would that refer more to the old Testament for Christians…since the rules there are more similar to those in Islam? And I could be wrong…but attributing divinity to Jesus…was not mentioned in the Old Testament. I’m under the impression that the new Testament not only contains this attribution but is also more lax. I’ve also read that only some portions of the Bible are authentic. So, are they really People of the Book if they follow one testament more than the other? Maybe the Christians during the time of the Prophet SAWS were also lax…and followed one testament more than the other? Another thing I’ve wondered about is that …you can’t marry a Hindu person because they’re polytheists…but attributing divinity to Jesus isn’t quite monotheism either…so how is that explained?