{"id":5914,"date":"2024-07-10T07:41:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/secret-marriages\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:27:08","slug":"secret-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/secret-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I  wanted to know the Islamic stance on court marriages and secret  marriages. Besides, how would you comment on a marriage concluded:<\/p>\n<p>1. with free mutual consent of both parties <\/p>\n<p>2. in the presence of two male witnesses <\/p>\n<p>3. by offer and acceptance BUT a. without the permission of Guardian and b. with the intention of keeping the marriage secret until the man becomes financially sound. <\/p>\n<p>Please  also note that both of the spouses keep their marriage secret because  they cannot get married for 2 or 3 years and they often meet each other.  So in order not to be sinful, they enter into <em>nikah<\/em>. Please be specific regarding the <em>hukm<\/em> (ruling) whether it is <em>Halal<\/em>, <em>Haram<\/em>, <em>Batil<\/em>, <em>Fasid<\/em>, <em>Makrooh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Marriage  has to be announced in a society at all costs otherwise it can  potentially damage the repute of the man and woman. Secret marriages  must not take place. In fact, <em>nikah<\/em> in itself encompasses an open announcement that it has taken place.<\/p>\n<div>However,  once a marriage has taken place in this fashion, it is up to a court of  law to decide whether it should continue or be annulled keeping in view  all the circumstances. We cannot give rulings unless a case is closely  studied. Likewise implementation of a decision in this regard also rests  on competent authorities of a state.<\/div>\n<p>As for the condition of approval of a guardian please refer to the following discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monthly-renaissance.com\/issue\/content.aspx?id=863\">Wali\u2019s Consent in Marriage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-04<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"5914\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I  wanted to know the Islamic stance on court marriages and secret  marriages. Besides, how would you comment on a marriage concluded:<\/p>\n<p>1. with free mutual consent of both parties <\/p>\n<p>2. in the presence of two male witnesses <\/p>\n<p>3. by offer and acceptance BUT a. without the permission of Guardian and b. with the intention of keeping the marriage secret until the man becomes financially sound. <\/p>\n<p>Please  also note that both of the spouses keep their marriage secret because  they cannot get married for 2 or 3 years and they often meet each other.  So in order not to be sinful, they enter into <em>nikah<\/em>. Please be specific regarding the <em>hukm<\/em> (ruling) whether it is <em>Halal<\/em>, <em>Haram<\/em>, <em>Batil<\/em>, <em>Fasid<\/em>, <em>Makrooh<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1173,1162],"tags":[1168,1188,1455,1433],"class_list":["post-5914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morals-and-morality","category-social-issues","tag-marriage","tag-nikah","tag-secret-marriage","tag-shadi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Secret Marriages - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/secret-marriages\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Secret Marriages - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I wanted to know the Islamic stance on court marriages and secret marriages. 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