Previous Marriage and Name
371 questions
Is it permissible to name someone "Ghina"?
Is it permissible for me to marry the girl I love despite my parents' objection, due to previous family disputes and a bad reputation of one of her female relatives, and would that be considered disobedience to parents?
Does divorce occur in the aforementioned cases, with doubt regarding the intention of divorce when stipulating it, the wife's dissimulation in taking an oath, the prior retraction of the stipulated oath of divorce, and the occurrence of a breach of previous oaths of divorce?
Is it permissible for a woman to accept a marriage proposal from another man and break her promise to a young man who proposed to her after she finished her studies and he found a job?
How should I act regarding two young men who proposed to me, one of whom reopened the subject and the other did not, but my heart is attached to him and I pray to God to unite me with him? Should I wait for him despite the absence of any signs? And how do I perform Istikhara between them to know which of them is better for me and relieve my confusion? Is it permissible to name them in Istikhara? And what is the recommended supplication in this case?
Is a girl born from her mother's marriage to another man (not the father) forbidden to her mother's first husband?
Is the coincidence of an undesirable person's name during a supplication for marriage a sign from Allah or whispers from Satan?
What are the rights and duties of the daughter towards her stepfather, and what are the rights and duties of the stepfather towards his stepdaughter?
What is the wisdom behind the impermissibility for a woman to take her husband's family name instead of her own, or to add it after her family name, after marriage?
Is Saeed's marriage to Aunt Fatima unlawful, given that he was previously married to the daughter of her former husband, Ahmed, from another wife, and is this girl considered Saeed's stepdaughter in his marriage to the aunt?
Does a man's concealing from a girl's family his previous marriage and the fact that he is a father of two children invalidate the engagement Islamically, if the girl herself has known and consented?
Is it permissible for a suitor of good character and religious commitment to propose to a girl, but her guardian rejects him due to tribal reasons, customs, and traditions, so she falsifies his identity and nationality before the guardian to prevent rejection, or marries him in court and informs the guardian later?
Is it considered backbiting and slander to reveal a secret about a friend who was in an illicit relationship—whose nude pictures I saw on his phone and from whom I learned of her suspicion of pregnancy—even though I did so out of sincere advice and concern for my female relative whom he proposed to?
Is it permissible for a mother to ask her youngest son to wait until he marries so she can help him, as she did with his siblings, or must she write a plot of land in his name now?
Is it permissible for the wife of a recently deceased grandfather to reside in the house of her husband's children (paternal uncles and aunts), or must she return to the house of her children from a previous marriage after her 'iddah ends?
Must a betrothed woman inform her fiancé about her previous unregistered marriage (zawaj urfi) that was not consummated, and would she be sinful if she did not inform him for fear of spoiling the engagement?
Is this corrupt husband proof of God’s wrath upon the questioner and that she is among the wicked women, especially since she repented to God from a previous recklessness and asked Him for a righteous husband?
Does the word "מَحֲמַדִּים" in Song of Songs 5:16 refer to the Prophet Muhammad, knowing that it might be a combination of two Hebrew words "מה" (ma) and "אמד" (amad), and that the book was written before the birth of the Prophet Muhammad?
Does divorce occur if it is not uttered, but rather by filling out a divorce certificate and checking the box "second divorce" when a previous divorce has occurred, and sending a picture of the paper to the wife with the phrase "don't bother me, what was between us is over," in addition to relatives answering "yes" when asked about the occurrence of divorce?
Is it Islamically permissible for me to marry a man who is already married, given that I am a friend of his wife?
What is the ruling on marrying a Hindu woman who stipulates continuing her hobby of photographing Hindu temples, despite her declaration of Islam, and is her Islam considered valid if it is due to her desire for marriage?
How is the inheritance of a woman who died, leaving behind a husband, three sons, and three daughters, calculated and divided, knowing that the eldest son is from a previous marriage, and that the husband (father of two sons and three daughters) died before the inheritance was divided?
Is maintaining kinship ties obligatory with a paternal uncle who tried to kill the father, slandered the sisters, and defamed the father, or is refraining from maintaining ties with him considered severing kinship ties?
Is the second husband entitled not to provide for his working wife, under the pretext that he thinks she has enough money, while she spends her salary on her children from a previous marriage?