Question:
Salaam
Please advise on the Shari’ah ruling for a Muslim woman who is marrying a Christian man where no one will convert.
Shukran
Was salaam
Answer:
It is Haraam for a Muslim woman to marry a non-Muslim man. If she married a non-Muslim man intentionally, knowing it to be Haraam, this Nikah will be invalid according to the Shari’ah and she will be a sinner. Her intercourse with him will be termed as Zina. If she thought this to permissible and married, then she will become a Kaafir because she made Halaal which Shari’ah has made Haraam at her pleasure. May Allah save us all. Aameen
And Allah Ta’ala knows best
Mufti Muhammad Ashraf
Darul Iftaa
Jameah Mahmoodiyah
Springs
04 February 2006
05 Muharram 1427