If a person converts to Islam while having more than four wives and refuses to choose among them?
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The questioner : Among these cases is when a man converts to Islam while having more than one class of wives.
The Shaykh : More.
The questioner : More than four, and he refused. Four.
The Shaykh : From four, from four, yes, four, can he have four? Yes, so this is an error, it is clear. If he converts to Islam while having more than four, meaning a man with five women who then converts. Yes.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : No, it is permissible to use the feminine form, meaning to omit the marker of femininity. For one who fasts and then follows it with six days of Shawwal, it is permissible to say six and six. Yes.
The questioner : Among these cases is when.
The Shaykh : This is what is meant by the feminine form that cannot be made masculine. Yes.
The questioner : Among these cases is when a man converts to Islam while having more than four wives and refuses to choose among them; the ruler compels him to choose and punishes him repeatedly until he chooses.
The Shaykh : No, once, the apparent ruling is once, but his writing is good, hmm? Al-Shafi'i, Al-Shafi'i.
The questioner : He is not an apostate, Shaykh, hmm, he is not an apostate from?
The Shaykh : If he becomes an apostate, praise be to Allah, the sword, because if he becomes an apostate after Islam, it is said: either you convert to Islam or we will kill you.
The questioner : But if the companion or one of the people of the Shari'ah converts, and he has four.
The Shaykh : He has five.
The questioner : She has more than four.
The Shaykh : She chooses four and leaves the rest.
The questioner : Four children.
The Shaykh : If he is a Muslim with true Islam, he will do it, and if his Islam is weak, there is no choice but compulsion. Yes.
The questioner : And he is punished repeatedly until he chooses for him.
The Shaykh : From one of them, it is not apparent from them, it is an extra word. Yes.
The questioner : And he did not choose for him, because the choice is entrusted to his desire and purpose, and nothing else.
The Shaykh : Because the ruler might choose four whom he dislikes, so there is no option but to punish him repeatedly until he chooses. Yes.
The Shaykh : More.
The questioner : More than four, and he refused. Four.
The Shaykh : From four, from four, yes, four, can he have four? Yes, so this is an error, it is clear. If he converts to Islam while having more than four, meaning a man with five women who then converts. Yes.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : No, it is permissible to use the feminine form, meaning to omit the marker of femininity. For one who fasts and then follows it with six days of Shawwal, it is permissible to say six and six. Yes.
The questioner : Among these cases is when.
The Shaykh : This is what is meant by the feminine form that cannot be made masculine. Yes.
The questioner : Among these cases is when a man converts to Islam while having more than four wives and refuses to choose among them; the ruler compels him to choose and punishes him repeatedly until he chooses.
The Shaykh : No, once, the apparent ruling is once, but his writing is good, hmm? Al-Shafi'i, Al-Shafi'i.
The questioner : He is not an apostate, Shaykh, hmm, he is not an apostate from?
The Shaykh : If he becomes an apostate, praise be to Allah, the sword, because if he becomes an apostate after Islam, it is said: either you convert to Islam or we will kill you.
The questioner : But if the companion or one of the people of the Shari'ah converts, and he has four.
The Shaykh : He has five.
The questioner : She has more than four.
The Shaykh : She chooses four and leaves the rest.
The questioner : Four children.
The Shaykh : If he is a Muslim with true Islam, he will do it, and if his Islam is weak, there is no choice but compulsion. Yes.
The questioner : And he is punished repeatedly until he chooses for him.
The Shaykh : From one of them, it is not apparent from them, it is an extra word. Yes.
The questioner : And he did not choose for him, because the choice is entrusted to his desire and purpose, and nothing else.
The Shaykh : Because the ruler might choose four whom he dislikes, so there is no option but to punish him repeatedly until he chooses. Yes.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 256 - إذا أسلم الشخص على أكثر من أربعة وأبى أن يختار منهن؟ قواعد ابن رجب - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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