What is the ruling of the Sharia on a young Muslim man continuing a relationship with a non-Muslim girl, living together under one roof, without a legally valid contract complete in its pillars, knowing that they have agreed on future marriage and that the girl desires to embrace Islam, and will the young man be held accountable for the girl's deficiency in understanding Islam due to her not mastering the Arabic language?
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What this Muslim man did is a great evil, and it is one of the major sins by scholarly consensus. He must repent and leave the woman immediately, because his continued presence with her is public prostitution and adultery. It is not permissible for him to marry her except under two conditions: that she be Muslim or from the People of the Book, and that she has repented and abstained from adultery.
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