Rishtas abroad

PyariCgudia · January 19, 2015, 6:52am

Re: Rishtas abroad

Okay somebody answer this question for me. I don’t intend to be rude to anyone who married a non-Muslim. I am just looking for clarification.

I know the Prophet SAWS married women who were among the People of the Book. Did his wives convert to Islam then? Were they active followers of Islam?

Muslim men are allowed to marry Christian/Jewish women…but is it on the condition that they convert to Islam…or are they allowed to maintain their religions even after marriage?

If the non-Muslim women that the Prophet SAWS married converted to Islam …or even if they sincerely agreed to practice Islam prior to marrying him…then is the Sunnah being adhered to in modern times if the wife has no real interest in desire in practicing Islam and isn’t even a practicing Christian or Jew herself?

I thought there is an open letter that Muhammad (SAW) wrote to Christians stating that if a Christian marries one of his muslims, that she has every right to attend her own Church, etc.

But in excess - this is a problem. If you wont let muslim women marry outside the faith, or date to meet other guys, and on the other hand you wont introduce them to muslim men, and it’s very easy for muslim men to marry non-muslims because they’re surrounded by non-muslims all the time, and are bound to fall in love with someone, then how is that fair to the female muslim congregation??

There should be matrimonial services in every masjid, and mixers for the youth so they can meet up and connect. At this point, there are websites performing these services, and it makes it easy for jokesters to take advantage.

This week alone from muslim websites, I’ve been hit up for internet/phone sex about 3x.

Again, how is this fair to muslim women? To deny them opportunities to meet the opposite sex? Not everyone’s parents have 200 friends and throw weekend dawats. We threw one dawat ever for my graduation, it cost about 3000-4000 dollars - venue and food, nothing fancy. Not everyone has money pouring out of their behinds that they can host huge gatherings of people.

So masjids serve a central meeting point. Why are they not getting involved in the marriage process? They want to dictate every aspect of my life every Friday, so why not help us out?