Ruling on marriage contract with one who was not praying then Allaah guided him
Question: 12467
I wonder if you could please answer my question as it worries me alot. My husband didn’t pray at the time I got married, three years ago. Although shortly after marriage I convinced him to and he does now. I was wondering whether this marriage is null considering that at the time of the Nikkah, he didn’t pray. What can I do now?
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) was
asked about a marriage contract with one who was not praying then Allaah
guided him. He said:
If the wife, like the husband, was not praying at the time of the
marriage contract, then the marriage is valid, but if she was praying
then the contract must be renewed, because it is not permissible for
a Muslim woman to marry a kaafir man, because Allaah says (interpretation
of the meaning):
“And give not (your daughters) in marriage to
Al Mushrikoon (polytheists, pagans) till they believe (in Allaah Alone)”
[al-Baqarah 2:221]
This means that Muslim women should not marry them until they become
Muslim, because Allaah says in Soorat al-Mumtahinah (interpretation
of the meaning):
“then if you ascertain that they
[emigrant Muslim women] are true believers send them not back to the
disbelievers. They are not lawful (wives) for the disbelievers nor are
the disbelievers lawful (husbands) for them”
[al-Mumatahanah 60:10]
Source:
Fataawa Islamiyyah, 3/242-243
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