{"id":6764,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/marrying-a-woman-of-different-religion-denomination\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:23","slug":"marrying-a-woman-of-different-religion-denomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/marrying-a-woman-of-different-religion-denomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Marrying A Woman Of Different Religion Denomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I  have a very personnel question regarding my marriage. I have promised a  girl to marry her but her family members are very irrational (personal  opinion) orthodox <em>bralevi<\/em>. On the other hand my family members  are relatively rationale. My brother says that the girl must have the  same belief as their parents. Till then I should not go ahead with this  relation. Today I am in an ambivalent condition. If I get married to her  I will lose the basic tradition of my family and its belief and of  course it will set not a very good example for the next generation. On  the other hand, if I withdraw from it I myself consider it very immoral  and this will affect the life of the girl more than it can affect mine.  Please guide me.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Before  marriage it is essential that one should consider the cultural,  religious and social circumstances of one&#8217;s spouse and her family as  well. This is necessary for a harmonious marriage. You should assess  your proposed spouse and her family with reference to these  circumstances and then take a decision. <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div>Of  course abiding by one&#8217;s promise is very essential as well. However, in  the situation you are in, you should give priority to what has been said  earlier. If you have to break your promise, then it is perhaps a lesser  commitment you have to break and in this case you should apologize to  that lady and also give the atonement for breaking an oath mentioned in  the Qur&#8217;an (5:89).<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-03<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6764\" 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  have a very personnel question regarding my marriage. I have promised a  girl to marry her but her family members are very irrational (personal  opinion) orthodox <em>bralevi<\/em>. On the other hand my family members  are relatively rationale. My brother says that the girl must have the  same belief as their parents. Till then I should not go ahead with this  relation. Today I am in an ambivalent condition. If I get married to her  I will lose the basic tradition of my family and its belief and of  course it will set not a very good example for the next generation. On  the other hand, if I withdraw from it I myself consider it very immoral  and this will affect the life of the girl more than it can affect mine.  Please guide me.<\/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":[1162],"tags":[1181,1168,1188,1433],"class_list":["post-6764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-issues","tag-innovation","tag-marriage","tag-nikah","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>Marrying A Woman Of Different Religion Denomination - 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\/marrying-a-woman-of-different-religion-denomination\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marrying A Woman Of Different Religion Denomination - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have a very personnel question regarding my marriage. 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