You mentioned, may Allah preserve you, that it is permissible to marry from the People of the Book

The questioner : He said: Your Eminence, I mentioned, may Allah preserve you, that it is permissible to marry from the People of the Book.

The Shaykh : From whom? Yes.

The questioner : That it is permissible to marry from the People of the Book. So, are the Jews and Christians in this time called People of the Book, given what they do of distorting and renewing their books every ten years, and their claiming descent from Isa (peace be upon him), from whom He is innocent? Second: How do you reconcile the permissibility of marrying from the People of the Book with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: I ask you to clarify this for me.

The Shaykh : Yes, I say: The last of the Qur'an to be revealed was Surat al-Ma'idah, to the point that the scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) said: "There is nothing in Surat al-Ma'idah that is abrogated", and in Surat al-Ma'idah is the permissibility of the women of the People of the Book, so Allah the Exalted said: Even though in that same verse Allah the Exalted said: And the Christians say: "Allah is the third of three," and the Jews say: "Azar is the son of Allah," and yet Allah has made their women lawful. As for His saying: It is known that a woman is subordinate to her husband, so even if she remains in the Arabian Peninsula, she is a follower, not independent. Therefore, if a man from the Arabian Peninsula marries a Christian woman in their lands and brings her to the Peninsula, he may keep her, because she is considered subordinate. Indeed, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called wives "captives" (awani), meaning prisoners, and said: And the "awani" (captives) are prisoners. Yes.