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If I was married to a woman in a permanent marriage and we have divorced, is the mother of my ex-wife still a Mahram to me? And does the ruling differ in case of temporary marriage?
If a man conducts a marriage contract with a woman, it is permanently prohibited to marry her mother. This ruling does not differ between temporary and permanent marriage.
Is it the case that if a person wishes to marry his wife's niece, he cannot do so unless his wife permits it? Is it also the case if he wishes to marry his wife's aunt? In these issues, is there a difference between permanent and temporary marriage?
Yes, the permission of his wife is required for it to be permissible for him to marry her niece. The man does not need the wife's consent to marry her aunt. There is no difference in the two scenarios between the two types of marriages.
If a man enters into a temporary marriage contract with a woman and has sexual intercourse, when this temporary marriage ends, is it permissible to marry her daughter by way of permanent marriage?
When a man enters in any kind of marriage contract - whether temporary or permanent - with a woman, any kind of marriage contract with her daughter is invalid.
Can a man marry temporarily the mother or the sister of a woman he had previously temporarily married?
The marriage contract with the mother after conducting a marriage contract with her daughter is not valid; also, marriage with her sister is invalid as long as she is still in Iddah based on an obligatory precaution. After the Iddah end, he is permitted to marry her sister.
My elder sister got married with a cousin. The cousin has a daughter from a previous marriage. However, I had intended to marry the cousin's daughter. Will my sister's marriage to this girl's father be an obstacle for me marrying the girl in the future?
Your sister’s marriage to the girl's father does not make your future marriage to the daughter prohibited.
If an adult man sodomizes another man, is it permissible for the sodomizer to marry the sister of the sodomized?
No, it is not permissible for him to marry the sister of the person he sodomized.
If two men commit sodomy, can the man who was sodomised marry the sister or daughter of the one who sodomised him?
The marriage is impermissible in the said case.
A boy commits sodomy with another boy. One of the boys first thinks that penetration had happened, but the other boy (the object of sodomy) then insists that there was no penetration, and this causes doubt in the mind of the first boy, which lingers for years. Can the first boy (who committed the act) marry the sister of the other?
If the perpetrator of the sodomy was not an adult at the time of the act – as per the religious definition of adulthood– then marrying the sister of the accusative is permissible, even if penetration took place, not to mention if penetration is doubtful.
If a girl becomes unlawful to a man because of sodomy with her brother, then is there any atonement by which she becomes lawful again?
Such an act does not have a religious Kaffara, and the prohibition is permanent.
Can a married woman who has a husband have temporary marriage with someone other than her husband?
No, it is not permissible, and it is the worst kind of adultery.
Is it permissible to conduct a temporary marriage contract with a woman who is in her iddah period if they place a condition in the marriage that they will not have sex until the iddah is finished?
It is not permissible to conduct a marriage contract with a woman during her waiting period (iddah) even if they included a condition in the contact not to consummate the marriage.
A Sunni man was married to a Shia woman. After some time, they were separated. She filed for divorce against him in the courts. He went to a Sunni judge and divorced her but her civil divorce is not completed yet. Is she considered as divorced? Can she remarry again?
If the divorce by the Sunni judge was based on the religious laws of the sect of the husband, the divorce is correct, even if it is not registered in a legal way. She can remarry after observing the waiting period (the iddah).
If a married man committed adultery, does his wife become prohibited for him?
Although what he has done is amongst the major sins but it does not make his wife prohibited for him.
If someone has had sexual intercourse with a married woman, and her husband has divorced her now, is it permissible for the adulterer to marry her now?
Committing adultery is prohibited, and if the adultery is committed with a married woman, marriage with her becomes prohibited permanently based on obligatory precaution, even after she is divorced.
I did not know that a woman was already in a temporary marriage with someone else, and I entered a temporary marriage with her; can I marry the same woman after her previous temporary marriage period is over or ended?
If you consummated the marriage, i.e. had sexual intercourse with the woman, then it is prohibited to marry her permanently. But, if the temporary marriage contract with the first man was invalid for some reason, e.g. if it was without mentioning the dower, then you can marry her again.
Is it allowed to remarry (temporary/permanent) the same girl one was married to before, a few months after the end of the Iddah?
It is permissible to marry a woman one was married to previously, after the waiting period (Iddah).
My legal divorce from my husband is taking many months, maybe one year. My husband refuses to do Islamic divorce until the legal divorce is finalized. In this period of waiting, may I perform temporary marriage with another man? If I have my needs to be fulfilled?
You are still his wife. You are not permitted to marry another man, and it is one of the major sins to do so.
We advise you to reconsider returning to your husband and finding a way to reconcile the issues that have come up.