Is it permissible for a Muslim man to marry a Christian woman who is older than him and whom he loves, knowing that he invites her to Islam and hopes for her conversion, and is it permissible to conceal the marriage from her guardian if their knowledge could lead to her death, and is it permissible to conceal the matter from his family to avoid problems with his mother, and is it permissible to be secretly associated without the family's knowledge?
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Allah has permitted the believer to marry the chaste believing woman, as well as the chaste women from the People of the Book.
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