The Ruling on Wearing a Wedding Ring

Question : May Allah reward you with good. This is a woman asking about the ruling on the wedding ring: is it permissible for a woman to wear it, or not?

Answer : If the ring is accompanied by a belief, it is forbidden without a doubt. A sign that it is based on a belief is that some people write the husband's name on the wife's ring and the wife's name on the husband's ring. This indicates that there is a belief, and that the meaning of his wife's name being in his hand and his name being in his wife's hand is union. For this reason, if we tell some of the people who wear gold rings that this is forbidden and they must remove it, they say, "If I remove it, my wife will be upset." This indicates that there is a belief. So if wearing it is accompanied by a belief, there is no doubt that it is forbidden. If it is not accompanied by a belief, it may be said that it is forbidden because its origin is from the Christians, so its source is a forbidden source and it involves imitating the disbelievers. It may also be said that because it has become widespread among Muslims, it is no longer specific to the Christians, so it is of the kind of clothing that originates with non-Muslims, then becomes widespread among them and among Muslims, and the imitation is removed. And there is no doubt that not wearing it is preferable, in my view.