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Assalamualaikum
Mohamed Aslam,
What is now happening:-
Both parents agree and fix the wedding+ nikah.
While the bride is elsewhere, the groom with
the 2 witness etc., and the Muslim registrar of
marriages perform the nikah ceremony:
He recites something from the Quran and then fill up
the forms and get the 2 witnesses to sign and the
guardian of the bride holds the hand of the groom
and repeat in Arabic what is said by the registrar
that he (the groom)accepts so and so as his legal wife
followed by a short du'ah.
In order isn't it
?
abdeen
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Date: Tuesday, April
19, 2005 4:06:35 PM
Subject: [Norton
AntiSpam] Re: [IslamCity] A Woman Performing a Wedding(nikah)
Ceremony
Assalaamu ^Alaykum
Ok, hoooold on now. The basic conditions for an Islamic marriage
contract to be valid are to have a Muslim man, a Muslim, christian or
jewish woman, and two reliable Muslim male witnesses. The only time there
MUST be another person involved is if the contract is being performed
according to Imam ash-Shafa^iyy, when there must be a person of a certain
religious status (Shaykh), or if the girl is under age, and she must have
a Waliyy to give her in marriage. If these conditions are not met, then
the contract is not valid.
A woman can give herself in marriage, but men must officiate and
witness the contract.
and Allah knows best
Muhammed
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A Woman Performing a Wedding (Nikah)
Ceremony
Question:
At a recent wedding, a woman performed the nikah (i.e. doing the
khutbah and presiding over the ceremony). Are there any specific rules
to a person officiating a nikah, or is it simply a contract which anyone
can perform?
Answer:
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
There is nothing legally wrong with a Muslim woman performing a
wedding (nikah) ceremony. Women have full legal agency in the Shariah,
and have the right to initiate their own marriages, to act as agents
(wakeel) for others to marry, and to oversee the marriage of
others.
A nikah does not actually legally require a religious figure
(an imam or shaykh or mawlana) to conduct it. Rather, its obligatory
elements--as detailed more thoroughly in related answers--are: a valid
offer from one side and a valid corresponding acceptance from the other;
and witnesses who hear this offer and acceptance while knowing that what
is happening is a marriage.
However, it is recommended to have someone of learning, wisdom, and
piety involved in this process, in order to ensure that the marriage is
legally sound, pleasing to Allah (by not falling into errors of social
or religious judgement), and blessed.
And Allah alone gives success.
Wassalam,
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