Justice
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Marriage over the phone
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
How is a marriage contract performed over the telephone and what are the absolute minimum requirements for a marriage contract to be valid?
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Signing divorce certificate without intention to divorce
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
I have an urgent question. My brother became involved with another woman and wanted to marry her. This other woman placed a condition that he must divorce his first wife in order to marry her.
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Can the mahr be renegotiated? What if the bride and groom had no involvement in setting the mahr
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
Can mahr be renegotiated? Our relatives set a huge amount that my husband and I had no part in agreeing to. I don't want to burden my husband with a large debt, and want to follow the sunnah of reasonable mahrs.
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Seeking to terminate the marriage through khul`
Umm Khaleel
> Can the amount on the settlement for the Khula divorce be less than > the dowry amount the husband has given the wife?
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Does the mother have to share in children's maintenance
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
My ex husband has our children. Can you please let me know if i have to pay any any form of childcare maintenace to him.
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Can you breastfeed infront of dad and brother?
Wajihah Gregor
My friend is currently pregnant. She asked me to find out if she is allowed to breastfeed infront of her mother, sister and sister in law as her breasts will be exposed infront of them. She would like to know if she can …
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segregation
Ustadha Zaynab Ansari, SunniPath Academy Teacher
Please can you tell me the ruling for segregation at a wedding. Does there need to be a screen in between? I have been to weddings where the men and women sit separately but there is no screen.
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Depressed with divorce
SunniPath Answer Service Team
It has been seven weeks since I have been divorced from my husband, and I feel so depressed. I don’t miss him and alhamdullilah I am so grateful to Allah swt that he took me out of the marriage.
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Married for 14 years but wife is disrespectful. I feel like divorcing her.What should I do?
SunniPath Answer Service Team
I really need some help! I have been married for 14 years now, from the first day I married her she has never held any respect for me.
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Marriage and istikarah
SunniPath Answer Service Team
I carried out an Istikarah on several occasions concerning marriage, when i first did the Istikarah i had a very strong positive feeling towards the man, however as time has passed my feelings towards marrying this man a…
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Performing Nikah Twice
SunniPath Answer Service Team
As-salam alay-kum I have been advised to email sunni path. I have met a very good brother that I wish to marry, I have tried to introduce him to my family and they have rejected him on the basis that he is Deaf and from …
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Is this divorce?
SunniPath Answer Service Team
I know of a man who told his wife that if her mother came to their house again it will be divorce, it will be divorce, it will be divorce (three times). His wife's mother did visit them soon after. Is the divorce final?
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A wife's Right to Housing Separate From Her In-Laws and Others
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
I would like to know what obligation's the husband must have on providing his wife with shelter away from the in-laws. The husband is in full-time education and only agreed to the marriage, because his wife had agreed th…
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Child Custody After Divorce
Sidi Talal al-Azem
I have read somewhere that in case of a divorce, the mother gets custody of the children, she has custody of a male child until the age of 9 and of a female child until the girl gets married.
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RE: Thinking of Divorce vs. Pronouncing It
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
A brother had an argument with his family, afterwards whilst he was thinking over the argument he thought to him self i shall say to them 'if my sisters come to my wedding then 3 talaqs to my future wife', would the tala…
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Dispute Over Second Wife. Can The First Wife Seek Divorce?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
Brother X took a second wife without informing his first wife that of the fact. Furthermore, Brother X does not work and is not adequately supporting his first wife. The first wife wants to therefore end the marriage to …
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The husband's financial responsibilities after divorce
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
My wife and I are coming to the logical end of our marriage. The only thing that keeps us together is the two children. My Question is what are my financial commitments to her after the divorce. She says they continue un…
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Marriage Crisis: Trouble with In-Laws, Privacy, and the Rule of Love
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
My husband, who I love dearly, and I live at my in-laws’ house. My in-laws are very good people, but I don’t feel that my in-laws respect my privacy. They are excellent people; I love them dearly… but…
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Divorcing A Lazy Wife?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
My wife is from a religious background, but is lax about her religious duties. She misses prayers on and off, is loose about her hijab when I am not around. She'll watch Indian movies when she visits relatives... I am ge…
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Is it valid to marry over the phone? And marriage through transfer of agency (tawkil)
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
Is it valid to marry over the phone?
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Living Together After Divorce?
Shaykh Ilyas Patel
In the Reliance of the Traveller for Shafi`i fiqh, it states that when a man divorces his wife and she is in the idda it is haram for them to live together and he must move out unless they have separate wings. Is this al…
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A Marriage Broken Up For Non-Prayer?
Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
A close friend of mine, has had a marriage break up because she has recently been in close touch with Wahhabi brothers and sisters. They have influenced her to leave the husband on the grounds that he is not regular in h…
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Questions About Separation Initiated by the Wife (Khul`)
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
There is a Muslim sister who was married to a brother. At the time, they were both not praying, fasting or anything.She was not wearing hijaab either. Then she changed.
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Seeking divorce because of unhappiness and a change of heart
Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
Regarding divorce: Is unhappiness, change of heart (feelings towards your spouse), and incompatibility with one another a valid Islamic reason for divorce? We have tried many times to stay together but neither one of us …
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RE: Gifts from broken engagement
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
Me and this brother had been wanting to get married for 2 years. Now we are not because of very difficult circumstances. He bought me some things while we were 'engaged' such as some gold jewelry and other gifts.
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When can women seek to end a marriage and how?
Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
When can women seek to end a marriage and how? Answer Walaikum assalam, ‘Khula’ is a method of affecting a divorce.
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If the husband abandons the wife...
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
There was a Muslim family that I know of that was married.
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If the wife abandons the husband, what can he do?
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
What if the wife abandons the husband... what's the ruling on the husband's options?
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My child has suffered brain damage during labor... was it because of some wrong I did? Is there
Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
My child has suffered brain damage during labor… was it because of some wrong I did? Is there any reward for all the care we will have to give him?
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Hijab with non-Muslim sister-in-law
Shaykh Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
I was recently told that I don't have to wear hijab around my sister-in-law (she's a Christian). I was wondering if this is true. What if I had a sister-in-law that wasn't even ahl-al kitab (say she was Sikh/Hindu/atheis…