WHAT HAPPENS TO A MARRIAGE IF ONE OF THE COUPLE CONVERTS TO ISLAM?

[JerusalemBull]

Traditional Islamic jurisprudence says that Muslims should only marry each other. The only exception to this is that Muslim men are allowed to marry women who are Ahl al-Kitab (People of Scripture), usually limited to Jews and Christians. Traditionally, Muslim women were not allowed to marry non-Muslim men. But what happens to a non-Muslim couple who are married, and later one or both of them convert to Islam? Here are some fatwas on the issue, that slightly differ from each othe؟

 

[mangalavara]

But what happens to a non-Muslim couple who are married, and later one or both of them convert to Islam? Here are some fatwas on the issue, that slightly differ from each othe؟

I don’t know. One time, I read about the experience of a woman who was drawn to Islam, came to believe in it, and was ready to take šahādah. When it was time, she and her husband visited a mosque for her formal conversion. Wearing a headscarf and ready to recite her testimony in Arabic, she was told that she cannot convert. If she converted, she would have been the wife of an unbeliever, which would have been a sin in her case. I imagine that if she did convert, there would have been a lot of pressure on her husband to convert.

 

[JustGeorge]

I don’t know. One time, I read about the experience of a woman who was drawn to Islam, came to believe in it, and was ready to take šahādah. When it was time, she and her husband visited a mosque for her formal conversion. Wearing a headscarf and ready to recite her testimony in Arabic, she was told that she cannot convert. If she converted, she would have been the wife of an unbeliever, which would have been a sin in her case. I imagine that if she did convert, there would have been a lot of pressure on her husband to convert.

What did she do after that?

 

[mangalavara]

What did she do after that?

From what I recall, she became anti-Islamic.

 

[JerusalemBull]

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