What is the meaning of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “The fornicator does not marry except a fornicatress or a polytheistess”?

The questioner : Do you want to get married?

The Shaykh : Yes. The covenant says: .

The questioner : Yes?

The Shaykh : I mean, what is the meaning of the verse? It is that if a fornicator marries a woman, and she knows that this is forbidden, then she is a fornicator, because it is forbidden; the marriage of a fornicator is forbidden, because He said that this is forbidden for the believers. So if she marries a fornicator before he repents, and she knows that it is forbidden, but she is negligent in the matter, then she is a fornicator. And if she knows but does not accept this ruling, then she is a polytheist. So it becomes: If she knows the ruling but proceeds with it while knowing that she is disobeying Allah, or if she is a polytheist because she proceeds with it while not accepting this ruling, saying that she does not acknowledge this ruling and does not approve of it—this is the meaning of the verse, which admits of no other interpretation. Yes.

The questioner : I am waiting for you to activate it.

The Shaykh : It is the same thing. No one proceeds to marry a fornicatress except a man who knows the ruling but is lax, in which case he is a fornicator, or a man who knows the ruling but rejects it, in which case he is a polytheist. Yes. The ignorant person is neither a fornicator nor a polytheist, but the contract is annulled.