Previous Marriage and Name
371 questions
How can I ensure Allah accepts my repentance after committing lewd acts with a non-Muslim woman, who then embraced Islam, and I married her without witnesses? What is the ruling on the marriage contract and the child resulting from it? Is naming the child "Muhammad" considered a desecration of the name in this case? And how can I impose the hadd punishment upon myself to purify myself from sins?
Is it permissible to register the house in the name of the third wife to deprive the children from previous wives of their inheritance, and do they have a right to this house even though it is the sole dwelling of the last wife?
What should a girl do who regrets a sin and transgression she committed, as she had a previous relationship with a young man before engagement, and wants God to be pleased with her?
What is the significance of repeatedly seeing the name of a person for whom an Istikhara prayer was performed following family problems?
What is the ruling on a man of sound mind registering his property in the name of his wife and male children, thereby disinheriting his married daughters, and are the daughters entitled to claim their share of the wealth during his lifetime or after his death, and does the ruling differ if the daughters agree to this beforehand?
Is it permissible to buy shares from a friend in installments, provided that the shares remain in his portfolio and are sold upon request, with their value transferred to me, and with a purchase price set higher than the original market price?
Is it permissible to complete the finishing of the house and reside in it if some of the siblings object despite their previous approval, and was the gift properly executed in a way that grants the right to build? If not, is the questioner to be blamed if he files a lawsuit for partition (removal of co-ownership) after four years to sell the house and distribute the inheritance?
Is it considered unjust to a girl not to complete a previous engagement after three years and then propose to another without informing her, knowing that she entrusted her matter to God and was psychologically affected?
What is the Islamic legal ruling on the relationship between the questioner and the son who bears his name, and is what he did—marrying the child's mother after committing zina with her, and then divorcing her—Islamically permissible?
Is the restoration of the relationship between the two sisters after the father's rejection of the marriage an indication of good in this marriage, or was the previous rejection a sign from Allah that it was not good?
Is a divorce that occurred in exchange for the wife absolving the husband of the deferred dower considered khulʿ (dissolution of marriage at the wife's instance), and is it permissible for the husband to remarry her based on the opinion of those who consider khulʿ to be a فسخ (annulment), knowing the jurisprudential disagreement on the issue?
What is the religious ruling on a wife's actions of taking her daughter and depriving the father of seeing her and communicating with her, and preventing her from communicating with her paternal half-siblings, and threatening the child with that, knowing that the wife has children from a previous marriage and encourages the daughter to communicate with them but not with her paternal half-siblings? And what is the right of the father and the daughter in this case? And what are the consequences for the wife due to her actions?
Is it permissible to ask for prayers for facilitating marriage to a religious, educated, and well-mannered man, due to feelings of loneliness and fear, knowing that two previous engagements were broken off without problems?
How should a wife deal with her husband who tried to kiss her in public, admitted to masturbating and having a previous phone sex relationship, and insists on being alone with her in a hotel before the wedding, knowing that the wife wishes to forgive him and earn reward?
Would the marriage be unlawful or void if the husband is Muslim by name but does not pray, claiming he will pray later to teach his children, while his grandparents were Muslims and then apostatized to another religion?
Is refusing to visit the brother who married a woman after her divorce from her husband—following a previous relationship that occurred during her first marriage—and boycotting his children because of this marriage, a legally sound position?
What is the ruling on a husband burning previous photographs of himself that contain forbidden elements, and what is the ruling on him burning engagement and wedding photos that his wife does not wish to destroy, knowing that their relationship before marriage was unlawful?
Is fulfilling the parents' request for divorce considered an injustice to the husband and to oneself, especially since the reason for the dispute is the unavailability of the agreed-upon ملكiya (ownership) home, and the husband has sincerely repented of his previous behaviors?
How is the act of parents who commit a grave sin or incite it described, and what is the ruling concerning the father in the aforementioned case, based on previous fatwas? Do the measures taken by the father to restore rights constitute a will, or do they fall under another concept? And what are the consequences for the younger brother who obeyed his father in depriving his brother of inheritance?
Is it permissible for a husband to obey his mother by divorcing his wife, to whom he is lawfully wedded, despite his desire to remain with her, merely because his mother objects to her previous marriage and her children?
What is the ruling on returning a wife to her husband after he has divorced her for the third time with the words "you are divorced," based on the premise that the divorce did not take effect because her name was not mentioned, and considering it a revocable divorce?
What is the ruling on adoption in this case, and what should the husband do, knowing that he raised his ex-wife's daughter from when she was three months old, and his brothers treat her as their niece, and she does not observe hijab in front of them?
Is it permissible to seek out acquaintances to obtain a job if one is qualified for it? Does repentance for previous deception affect one's qualification for a job? How can one determine their entitlement to a job? What is the ruling on earnings from an undeserved job? And is it permissible to remain in it with repentance?
What is the religious ruling on the delayed marriage of a divorced, committed woman who has repented from a previous relationship, and will her supplication be accepted for Allah to expand her breast and ease her affairs?