For a Hindu, is the Islamic Nikaah (marriage) possible without religious conversion (Shahadah) to Islam?
Nikaah: Islamic Marriage
Shahadah (conversion): LA ILAHA ILL LALLAH MOHAMMADUR RASULULLAH. Shahadah is the declaration that there is no god but Allah and Prophet Mohammad is the messenger of Allah. Associating partners (like Lord Shiva) with Allah, including worship of idols (murtis), offering prayers or supplications to anyone, living or dead, is the greatest of all sins.
Koran 2:221: You shall not wed pagan woman, unless they embrace the faith. A believing* slave girl is better than an idolatress, though she may please you. A Hindu wedding is not a valid marriage as per Islamic laws. The union of a man and a woman without a valid nikaah is considered adultery punishable by stoning to death. In short, general belief is… for a Hindu, conversion to Islam before nikaah is a must.
*Believing: Here, the word “believing” (and pagan) is difficult to define. Most Muslims may define Hindus as “not believers” (kafir) while others may consider Hindus believer in God (Bhagwan, Devta, Isvar) and consider them as the people of book (like Veda). Share below what do you think.
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What I understood from the explanations from the Muslims here is, “you can have sex with non Muslims,you cant marry non muslim,you are to favor islam by giving condition to convert into islam,manipulate/force or anything to increase the number,but you can not marry” so basically you people can accept no love,contractual marriage, slavery,force conversion…. But No love marriage🤣
One in a million may marry a non Muslim without without having the spouse reverted to Islam.
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Section 5.1: Hindu-Muslim Marriages
Interfaith marriage is one of the most fundamental sinful actions in Islam after shirk, rebellion against parental authority and killing a person without any legal reason. However, according to our research, 45% of Muslims marry outside their faith in America. It is a common practice for this “interfaith” marriage problem to be solved by conversion of the non-Muslim fiancé(e) to Islam.
The Koran states “You shall not marry Mushrik women (idolatresses or who ascribe God’s attributes to other than Allah) unless they embrace the Faith. A believing slave woman is better than a Mushrik woman although she may please you.”
Hinduism views marriage as a sacred union but Islamic nikaah (marriage) is a contract to obey Allah. A non-Muslim is expected to take shahadah oaths before the nikaah. Shahadah is the declaration that there is no god but Allah and Prophet Mohammad is the messenger of Allah. Associating partners (like Lord Shiva) with Allah, including worship of idols (murtis), offering prayers or supplications to anyone, living or dead, is the greatest of all sins. No imam will perform nikaah wedding without the shahadah religious conversion. A Hindu wedding is not a valid marriage as per Islamic laws. The union of a man and a woman without a valid nikaah is considered adultery punishable by stoning to death. In short, for a Hindu, conversion to Islam before nikaah is a must.
Shahadah is an oath required to be taken by a non-Muslim to irreversibly convert to Islam. Muslim Caliphates invited all Muslim civilians to be involved in defending the Islamic state from attack by non-Muslims. Religious conversion from Islam was therefore conceptualized as a vital criminal violation that might be punishable by death because a former Muslim would endanger the existence of all Muslims by allying with an enemy of Islam.
Rabia says: February 29, 2016 at 1:49 am
Sadia, Nikkah cannot happen without the person converting to Islam, is the simple & correct answer. However, matters of love are more complex than that. Some people do “fake nikkah” but before that the non-Muslim has to convert (say the Shahadah) because the imam will not perform the marriage unless both parties are Muslims.
However, do think very hard & have honest conversations with your partner because nikkah is the easy way. Many girls are promised something before marriage by their smart spouses & after marriage the reality may be a bit different than what you expect from your partner. Men are quite cunning nowadays, so do have an open conversation about children, their religion, etc if these things matter to you. If you are secular, ignore my advice.
you can marry him by special act in court
Is it necessary for a non muslim to do sunnat before marryng a muslim girl.. Is shahadah oaths not enough..?
“Islam permits having sex with non Muslims or non muslims women captured in war”
Islam is the only one religion in this world which support this kind of brutal act.
Hi,
I just want you to know that muslims cannot marry Hindus, according to islam. Islam also indicates that there should be no relation (boyfriend/girlfriend/lover etc). between Muslims and non muslims. Given the above rule which a Muslim (by definition muslim is- one who only believes in allah, and quran as the correct religion, without raising any questions on whatever is written in quran).
Now coming back to your question he has broken rule of islam hence he has relationship with you. Ideally its his fault that he disobeyed allah. Now there is one more rule- you can do a favour to islam by having more and more non muslims convert to islam, either by peaceful means, or by force( applicable when ignorant( ignorant is also referred to people who are not muslims) do not want to see truth ( muslims consider “truth” is ONLY allah and quran) which automatically means that . All this also means that non muslim can use force or false promises or trickery when used to get a non muslim converted to islam
Comming again to your situations as muslim male cannot fall in love with non muslims unless he thinks to convert you OR to have sex with you its valid in islam. Islam permits having sex with non Muslims or non muslims women captured in war.
So now the situation is that either
1. You being coming from false religion( acc to islam) he will ask you to convert to islam for marriage or may be post marriage, post marriage you will have less chances of saying no to conversion.
2. He will leave you.
3. He converts to your religion, islam permits killing a person who converts to other religion out of islam, so most likely he would not do this.
4. You and he run away and marry. Here if you marry as hindu, he may or may not be fine. If you both marry as per islamic wedding YOU must be muslim. You both marry acc to marriage act, you both retain your religion, but there is no guarantee, if he returns back to his family you may have to become Muslim.
May I ask who made all these rules…shahadah, conversion and stuff…am not disrespecting anybody but everyone here is talking as if marriage is some college and you should have minimum eligibility requirements to get in….i say love is all you need to marry and if you cant really think in line to this, then please rethink that do you really love the other??…shatter your personal egos first…cuz “everything is fair in love and war”
This response is based on the reply of my daughter in law, who is a Dentist by profession and is an Imaam’s daughter.
A ..Hindus must take shahadah before the nikkah (or wedding) ceremony.