Choosing a Spouse
157 questions
Is reading Surat Ya-Sin and supplicating for marriage to a specific person—after an unjustified separation from him—considered opposing God's will, and is there a correct way to read it?
Is it permissible for a husband to abandon his wife and children for a year irrevocably, and to desire divorce without retracting his abandonment?
Is it permissible for a man to choose a wife based on her religiosity, while the wife chooses the man based on his wealth? And what should one do to find the religious wife encouraged by the Prophet, may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him? And is it permissible to choose a Muslim wife who is not religious, or a woman from the People of the Book, when a religious Muslim wife is unavailable?
What should a religiously committed girl do who married a person who watches television and forbidden things while she does not do that?
Is a wife's expulsion from the marital home, before and after divorce, considered an abandonment, and what is the meaning of a wife's statement to the authorized person: "I absolve you, my husband, from my 'iddah, my maintenance, and my solatium," and does this mean not observing the 'iddah in the marital home, and does reckoning the right with Allah absolve the husband from responsibility on the Day of Judgment?
Is refraining from supplicating for a specific person after persistent supplication considered the haste that was condemned in the words of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him: "The supplication of any one of you will be answered as long as he does not supplicate for a sin or for cutting off the ties of kinship, and as long as he is not hasty. It was said: O Messenger of Allah, what is haste? He said: When he says: 'I have supplicated and I have supplicated, but I do not see that I am being answered,' so he becomes disheartened at that and abandons supplication"?
Was woman created for man and his pleasure, or for the worship of Allah and for the tranquility and affection between spouses, and is a righteous man considered the best provision in this world for a woman, just as she is for a man?
Is the husband's intention of delegation or choice a prerequisite for transferring infallibility to the wife and her divorcing herself, and is the husband's saying to his wife: "Will you live with me or divorce?" and her reply: "I will divorce," considered a divorce or a delegation despite neither of them intending divorce?
Is a woman entitled to seek a divorce from her husband if he marries another? Is a husband’s marriage to a second wife considered a harm to the first wife? And must the husband consult her before marrying a second wife?
Is it permissible for a newly married man to suck his wife’s breast that does not contain milk, and is it permissible for a woman to kiss her husband’s penis over his clothes?
Does a divorce occur when the husband says: "If you ever speak about this topic again, then you are divorced by three," especially if he habitually swears by triple divorce on anything, and he has previously divorced his wife once? And does divorce occur through verbal declaration or through writing on WhatsApp?
Does a triple divorce befall the wife if she opens her husband's computer, knowing that the husband swore by divorce if she did so, and she had forgotten his oath, and she had previously opened his mobile phone with his permission, and she did that five times for verification and repair?
Does apostasy before consummation annul the marriage, and does an initial conviction that the marriage is annulled, followed by a change of mind, affect the validity of the marriage, and does a suspended divorce occur if the marriage was originally annulled?
Is a second marriage considered legitimate or void if the questioner left her first husband for five years due to his refusal to divorce her and then married another man, bearing in mind that the first husband said to her "you are divorced" more than once while in a state of anger?
Is it permissible for the two parties to an engagement, who met online and whose parents refused their marriage, to utter the phrase "I marry myself to you" in order to complete the legitimate Islamic marriage?
Is sexual fantasy about someone other than one's spouse during marital relations or in the early days of marriage considered actual Zina (fornication/adultery) that necessitates the Hadd punishment, or is it a metaphorical Zina?
Would you agree to marry a well-mannered and ethical young man from among the people of innovation (Ahl al-Bid'ah), who respects the Companions and reveres Lady Aisha, despite some differences between you?
What is the way to solve a marital problem that has been ongoing for two years, where each spouse lives in their parents' home, with the husband refusing to return despite the wife's attempts, and not wishing for divorce, which has led the wife to consider resorting to the court?
Does seclusion with one's wife behind closed doors without intercourse constitute a valid seclusion that necessitates the waiting period (iddah)? Does regaining one's spouse (raj'ah) depend on the expiration of the waiting period? Is intercourse that occurred during apostasy due to obsessive-compulsive disorder considered unlawful fornication? Is repentance sufficient for someone who doubts the time of their apostasy? Does apostasy apply to a person with OCD who apostatized inadvertently and then recanted?
Is it permissible for a woman to release her sexual desire by holding her husband's organ and caressing her clitoris with her husband's organ while she holds the organ with her hand?
What is the ruling on a husband divorcing his wife in response to pressure from his family, knowing that the marriage took place despite the family's prior objection due to differences in customs and traditions between the two tribes?
Is it permissible to use magic to retrieve a son, and will the father be questioned about it before Allah, and is it permissible to kill the mother to retrieve him?
Is what happened on the 27th night of Ramadan, after performing Istikhara concerning marriage, namely the Imam's mention of two examples of Istikhara involving a doctor and a lawyer—which are the professions of the questioner and the person for whom Istikhara was performed—considered a positive sign and confirmation of the Istikhara's answer, and is this sufficient to persist in supplicating for the acceleration of her marriage to this person?
How sound is the Hadith: "If someone whose دین (religious commitment) and خُلُق (character) you approve of comes to you, then marry [your daughter to] him." They said, "Even if he has [something objectionable] in him?" Is the Hadith sound, and if so, what is the meaning of "even if he has [something objectionable] in him?"