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I’ve just watched the “Doha Debates” episode on Muslim women right to marry who they choose (i.e. non-Muslim men). [Click here to watch it]

And here are the main points that I wished I could have voiced:

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- Both men and women can -legally- marry whoever they want, but if these marriages do not comply to the rules of Islam, then this marriage is religiously void. So it’s not an issue of free will as discussed during the episode, but rather an issue of adhering to Islam.

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- No one brought up the point that Muslim men are not free to marry whoever they want! A Muslim man can not marry a Buddhist woman or a Sikh woman or an atheist, even when they marry a non-Muslim, she has to be either a practising Christian or a practising Jew. So restrictions are there for both sexes, it happened that the restriction level for women is higher, that’s it.

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- Now why can’t women marry non-Muslim men, what is the morale behind it, and I was expecting that these points are to be brought up.

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Let’s be realistic, all societies are patriarchal, and it is the innate nature of men; their psychological makeup is that they want to have the say. That’s why they are fond of cars and football, they tend to control, be it a ball or the steering wheel. and it is islamically inappropriate for a woman to be in a car where she has not full sway over the steering wheel, where she is not sure about the journey, iternary, and destination. When a Muslim man marries a Christian or a Jew, Islam obliges him to give his wife the freedom to practise her religion, but what guarantees that a Muslim woman who marries a non-Muslim won’t face such things as: “ain’t you praying too much?” or “I don’t want our children to fast”.

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- I think even if there is no verse in the Holy Qura’n or a hadeeth that says that Muslim women can not marry a non-Muslim, it is an issue of common sense that this marriage is not in her own favour as a Muslim, as a woman maybe, but not as a Muslim.

Salaam everyone,

Wish you a very blessed ‘eed

It has been a while since I wrote here, and to make this up, your ‘eediyyah (‘eed gift) is going to be very beautiful recitations of the Holy Qur’an by Sheikh Najeeb Jamaal Alshaahir.

These recitations are available exclusively through my blog.

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