Marrying a Hindu

[sharief]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu
Peace and blessings be upon our Prophet

Dear Imam, not so long ago I saw a Hindu girl marrying a Muslim boy. They married according both to the Hindu and the Muslim tradition. Is this permissible? Because the Maulana who performed the Nikaah is seen as a very strict Muslim...

Djazaakallaahu gairan...

[Imam]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Wa'alaykum 'Assalam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu



Praise be to Allah the Almighty who is the Lord and Master of the Worlds, and may Endless Blessings be showered upon the last Final and Most Beloved Messenger of Islam Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa (Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam)


Jazak'Allah for your valued question. Regardless of whether the Mawlana was seen to be a very strict Muslim disregards the fact that any of our Muslim youth be married in accordance with Hindu tradition.


Islam has it's own method of marriage which is prescribed by the shar'iyyah, and for the validity of any nikah, these conditions must be fulfilled. The Muslim boy would not be allowed to change, or even think of changing his religion, purely for the fact of marrying a Hindu girl. Nor can he go into a Hindu temple and perform the rites and rituals that they have for their marriage to be valid.


Islam is not deprived of any system, but is the provider of all systems, and has ceremonies of its own. To perform these ceremonies, does not give rise to the fact that, nikah should also be performed elsewhere, just because one of the partners is unhappy. The shar'iyyah does not have the obligation of convincing people into marriage, it rather is a system, that the Muslims are in need of, so that they may live Islamically.


May Allah the Almighty give strength to all the children of Islam, in keeping firm, being sincere, practicing, and observing the precepts, of the religion of Islam.



Wallahu A'lamu Biththawaab


M. Waseem Ashrafi