# Which verses forbid or allow marrying non-Muslims?

*Interfaith marriage: the prohibiting verses and the People of the Book*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c8fjy8mcezm/s/5/
- Date: 2019-05-10 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Can a Nikah with a Non-Muslim be valid? - Mufti Abu Layth Al-Maliki (20:24–27:17)
- Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
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**Topics:** The marriage contract; Christians and other faiths

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Al-Baqarah 221 and the verse on the emigrant women are cited against intermarriage, while al-Ma'idah 5 allows marrying Christian and Jewish women. Imam Malik disliked it because a husband may not stop his Christian wife bringing pork and wine home.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth asks whether there are precedents for intermarriage. He presents the objections: the verse that the emigrant women are not lawful for their husbands in Makkah, and al-Baqarah 221, do not marry mushrik women or marry your women to mushrik men until they believe. Against these he reads al-Ma'idah 4-5, which makes lawful the food of the People of the Book and their chaste women, and asks why, if Christians are permitted despite holding Jesus to be Lord, which a report from Ibn Umar calls shirk, others should not be. He rejects the explanation that the food of Christians was the reason, citing Imam Malik and Imam Ahmad that a Muslim husband may not stop his Christian wife bringing wine or pork into his home, and that she will inevitably feed pork to the children, which is why Malik disliked such marriages.

## Sources and names cited

- Quran 60:10 (they are not lawful for them, nor are they lawful for them): https://quran.com/60/10
- Quran 2:221 (do not marry mushrik women until they believe): https://quran.com/2/221
- Quran 5:4-5 (the food and chaste women of the People of the Book are lawful): https://quran.com/5/4-5
- Ahl al-Kitab (People of the Book)
- Ibn Umar
- report: i do not know of a greater shirk than one who says jesus is her lord
- Imam Malik
- Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal

## Transcript (machine tier, 20:24–27:17)

[19:45] you being called in but that oh oh you just busy as with the earlier crew you just part of the Royal Rumble I'm going to work today you put on your gown I'm just walking through the streets this is like it's a difficult life this is difficult job but somebody's got to do it the cigar in your mouth anyway people so these were the different kinds of nikka that existed in jure hylia but the one that carried on was the normal one that where

[20:24] you go and propose and the other person accepts and so on so this you can see was not something that Islam introduced it was really there but Islam kind of allowed said there was nothing wrong with it so that's fine now then you have the issue okay what about marrying so if they in the house of the non-muslims are okay in the niqab the Muslims are okay what about if they intermarried do we have any precedents first of all well one point we have straight away what what do we have any objections because if they

[21:02] make as valid and arnica is valid so what if they in turn me yeah you know the they did the in turn occur then the question is well some people would say nope that's not okay because there's a verse of the Quran is it sore at all maha nada where Allah mentions that la Elohim well home yeah hey Luna LaHood that those women are not halal for them and he's speaking about those women who did Hydra and the Muslim women that came to Medina they not halal for their husbands back in Makkah and a not halal

[21:40] for them so somebody could object with that verse they could equal equally object with the verse that voila thank Allah will surely cut had a young men that do not in Surat al-baqarah that do not do not marry the mushrik at women until they believe and then Allah further states well I don't get who and do not marry off I'll mostly came to the mushrikeen as in your women folk do not marry them off to them Hetalia me know until they believe that's in surah Baqarah verse 2

[22:18] to 1 now so the question is that well with these verses that could be an objection that ok that they can't intermarried well okay well we've got that objection now what do we have in contrast to that what we have in contrast is Allah mentions in Surat al-ma'idah verse 4 Allah says yes a Lunik a mother or Helen home what as they are asking you what has been made

[22:55] halal for them hella locomotory but that good things have been made halal for you or my alum terminal jewelry Michaela bean to aluminum in my Alamo common law and the animals you use for hunting from what you teach them from what Allah has taught you owe me man I'm second o alaikum and then what they hunt for you you can eat from it is halal what charisma Allah what Curtis Malayali and mention the name of Allah what of Lionel La Cigale sir then verse 5 a glioma helicopter Javert what the AMA ladina Auto alcazaba halo Lacombe what are mukham halo l'homme

[23:34] that today good things these good things have been made halal for you the food of those who have been given the book is halal for you and your food is halal for them well my son at a minimum minute and women that chaste women of believers will mas and a terminal adeana Auto Nikita Birmingham Lincoln and the women of those who are given the book before you now that is really interesting because well wait a minute here you are marrying a Jewish woman or a Jewish man

[24:10] I'm sorry a Jewish sorry that Freudian slip there or a Christian woman right so the question is well there are completely different according to a Jewish according to Jewish teachings the child so long as the mother is Jewish is always Jewish then you have a tradition from even a whole mother of the Ilan I'm saying that that the Christians are mushrikeen that they are some of the he says I don't know I'm Moochi greater than one who says Jesus is my god is my

[24:48] lord so if this has been made halal for them so why not for regular non-muslims to here is the question why not now one may say well you know these people still believe in one God okay hmm but the question is well Christians can believe quite differently if you think about it Christians do you know what Jesus oh sweet Jesus you know that these kind of things like Jesus being Lord is such a

[25:25] primary focus of Christians yet it's permissible somebody some people have said oh the reason these people were okay because the food was a kind of halal and you think well really because Imam Malik answers that he says and this was Imam Ahmed as well that the reason he didn't like Muslims marrying Christian women because it is not permissible for a Muslim man to prevent his Christian wife from bringing alcohol or pork into his home is not permissible Imam Malik says lace Allah who I am now

[26:02] he cannot stop her islamically even though it's his house now think about it you would think back then in a patriarchal society they would have stopped down yet Imam Malik clearly and Imam Ahmed said it is not halal for the husband to prevent his what because it's halal for them to drink alcohol to eat poo and Imam Malik said the and it is inevitable she will definitely give her children pork because think about it the man is hardly at home he's probably working he's doing this and it's hard for her to eat it she's gonna pork what you think she's not gonna feed

[26:38] it to her own kids so and it was so easy for Imam Ali call those people to say it's the man's house he should say well this is my roof my rules you take the pork out throw it out you're not allowed to bring it but no he said lay sallahu I am NOT haha he cannot prevent her from you know eating laughing things here all come up so okay so it's not the food it's not the influence of impurity and stuff like this hmm okay what about another spanner in the

[27:16] works what about the miju's the Rast Rian's now here it gets a little interesting because imam malik transmits in his multiple people this is the book of imam ali khan happy now he transmits about the jizya values here in hadith number in this edition right 631 had these 631 from Malik from and this is really interesting you know Imam Malik sometimes he doesn't normally transmit from imam ja'far

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment c8fjy8MceZM/s/5. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/c8fjy8mcezm/s/5/

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