Choosing a Spouse
157 questions
What is the ruling on continuing a marital relationship after one spouse learns of the other's adultery?
Will a mother be held accountable for her shortcomings and harshness towards her children, just as a son is held accountable for disobeying his mother?
What is the ruling on a wife using an artificial phallus or practicing masturbation to satisfy her sexual desire, knowing that her husband suffers from a congenital defect that prevents him from procreating and having an erection, and she does not wish to divorce him?
Is it possible to build a successful marital life in light of familial divorce, illnesses, and online dating?
Should the questioner leave her fiancé, whom she loves for his religiosity and good character, knowing that he is a memorizer of 13 parts of the Qur’an, due to her father’s repeated rejection of him, and the father’s inability to bear the costs of the dowry and trousseau due to his debts and illness, and the questioner’s desire not to burden her father?
What are the rights and obligations of a woman in the event of divorce, and what can be done if divorce is the only comfortable solution for the couple, especially with the husband threatening divorce and taunting her about not conceiving?
What is the ruling on a wife seeking divorce from her husband who is afflicted with a contagious and fatal disease like AIDS, and would they be sinning if they remained together, or is that obligatory upon them?
Is it advisable to marry someone whose educational level does not match that of the woman, taking into account her ambition to complete her higher education and her future career in her field?
Is it permissible to pray for a righteous spouse who combines moral and religious beauty with physical beauty?
Is the husband sinful for divorcing his wife, or for not having intercourse with her for several months, knowing that he refrains from doing so due to his lack of desire for her, and his desire to divorce her to avoid having children with her?
What is the hymen? And what is the difference between a virgin and a non-virgin woman?
Does Iblis have offspring, and were his offspring through marriage, and does he have a wife?
Is it permissible to reject suitors for the purpose of completing the memorization of the Quran and seeking obligatory knowledge, fearing that the suitor may not be pious enough to assist in this or may distract from commitment?
What are the supplications or verses that help in future marriage, what are the criteria for choosing a suitable partner, and can the Quran be a guide in answering this?
What should a husband do who discovered after marriage that his wife has been ill since birth and is mentally incapacitated, with her family being aware of this and concealing her illness, and she is now pregnant? Should he divorce her and take the children?
Is a wife entitled to seek divorce if she cannot tolerate her husband's narcissism and cruelty, his accusing her of infidelity, his not spending on her, his abandonment of her, and his persistence in accusing her of escapism and extreme secularism? And is she considered sinful for not giving him his conjugal rights due to her awaiting divorce and her aversion to his touch, despite her allowing him to marry another?
To what extent is social, educational, and cultural compatibility important when choosing a spouse?
Is it permissible to continue speaking on the phone with a young man who proposed to me over the phone and whom I have not yet seen, under the pretext of getting to know each other until marriage?
Is the second divorce counted for a woman who sought divorce from her absent husband and told him, "Yes, I am divorced," while she was ignorant of the divorce's occurrence and in a moment of sadness and crying?
Can the daughter of a deceased person (father or mother) attend the wedding of her mother-in-law's son after the forty-day mourning period?
Is a person predestined or free to choose a spouse, and should a girl agree to marry someone who doesn't possess all the desired qualities, fearing delayed marriage, or should she wait for a righteous spouse?
Is a relationship that began with acquaintance and dating for marriage between a young man and a young woman during their studies, and continued with contact and then repentance, Islamically valid or corrupt?
Is it incumbent upon me to marry despite my fear for a future wife regarding the problems caused by my older brother and my apprehension of divorce, or should I live my independent life away from my family?
Is seeking a divorce due to a wife's inability to endure her husband's obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) behaviors, which negatively impact her psychological health and that of her children, considered abandoning him or a sin deserving punishment?