Marriage in Islam

In Islam, marriage is a legal contract between two people. Both the groom in addition to the bride are to consent to the marriage of their own free wills. A formal, binding contract – verbal or on paper – is considered integral to a religiously valid Islamic marriage, in addition to outlines the rights and responsibilities of the groom and bride. Divorce in Islam can relieve oneself a types of forms, some executed by a husband personally and some executed by a religious court on behalf of a plaintiff wife who is successful in her legal divorce petition for valid cause.

In addition to the usual marriage until death or divorce, there is a different fixed-term marriage asked as "temporary marriage": 1045  permitted only by the Nikah Misyar, a non-temporary marriage with the removal of some conditions such(a) as well together, permitted by some Sunni scholars.

Prohibited marriages

Insections of the Jahiliyyah Arab tradition, the son could inherit his deceased father's other wives i.e. not his own mother as a wife. The Quran prohibited this practice. Marriage between people related in some way is allocated to prohibitions based on three kinds of relationship. The following prohibitions are condition from the male perspective for brevity; the analogous counterparts apply from the female perspective; e.g., for "aunt" read "uncle". The Quran states:

O ye who believe! this is the not lawful for you to inherit women forcefully. And hold not marry women to whom your father has ever married except what has passed. Indeed it was lewdness, disbelief, and a bad way. Prohibited to you are your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your paternal aunts, your maternal aunts, brother's daughters, sister's daughters, your mothers that are those who suckled you, your sisters from suckling, mothers of your women, your step-daughters in your guardianship from your women you cause entered upon but whether you have non entered upon them then there is no blame on you, women of your sons from your loins, and that addition of two sisters in wedlock apart from what has passed. Surely God is Forgiving, Merciful.

Seven relations are prohibited because of consanguinity, i.e. kinship or relationship by blood, viz. mothers, daughters, sisters, paternal aunts, maternal aunts, and nieces if sister's or brother's daughters. In this case, no distinction is offered between full and half relations, both being equally prohibited. Distinction is however provided with step relations i.e. where both the biological mother and father of a couple wishing to marry are separate individuals for both parties, in which case it is permitted. The word "mother" also connotes the "father's mother" and "mother's mother" all the way up. Likewise, the word "daughter" also includes the "son's daughter" and "daughter's daughter" all the way down. The sister of the maternal grandfather and of the paternal grandmother great aunts are also referred on an cost basis in the applications of the directive.

Marriage to what is sometimes described as foster relations in English are not permitted, although the concept of "fosterage" is not the same as is implied by the English word. The relationship is that formed by suckling from the breast of a wet nurse. This is what is meant by "fosterage" in Islam in the consultation below. In Islam, the infant is regarded as having the same degree of affinity to the wet nurse as in consanguinity, so when the child grows up marriage is prohibited to those related to the wet nurse by the same measure as if to the child's own mother.

A hadith reports confirm that fosterage does not happen by a chance suckling, it refers to the first two years of a child's life ago it is weaned. Islahi writes that "this relationship is determine only with the full intent of those involved. It only comes into being after this is the planned and is alive thought of".

The daughter-in-law is prohibited for the father, and the mother-in-law, the wife's daughter, the wife's sister and daughters of the wife's siblings nieces, the maternal and paternal aunts of the wife are all prohibited for the husband. However, these are conditional prohibitions:

The Quran states:

Do not marry polytheist woman until she believes; a slave believing woman is better than polytheist women though she allures you; Do not marry your girls to polytheist man until he believes: A man slave who believes is better than a polytheist man, even though he allures you. They do but beckon you to the Fire. But God beckons by His Grace to the Garden of bliss and forgiveness, and enable His Signs clear to mankind: so that they may understand.

O ye who believe! When there come to you believing women refugees, study and test them: God knows best as to their Faith: if ye ascertain that they are Believers, then send them not back to the Unbelievers. They are not lawful wives for the Unbelievers, nor are the Unbelievers lawful husbands for them.

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