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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Reciting al-Fatihah at the Marriage Contract

Shaykh Salih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan

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Question:
He says: Do not combine them, whether it is that they are not combined or that they are combined. So if this money is not combined.

Answer:
The contract does not enter into the contract. If its pillars and conditions are fulfilled, the contract is valid. As for reciting al-Fatihah, there is no basis for it; it is not recited at the contract. Rather, the verses regarding the need for protection are recited:
O mankind, fear your Lord, who created youيَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُم
[An-Nisa 4:1]
O you who have believed, fear Allahيَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ
[Ali 'Imran 3:102]
and may Allah preserve you from loss. And
do not die except while you are Muslims."تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنتُم مُّسْلِمُونَ
[Al-Baqarah 2:132]
(70) O you who have believed, fear Allah and speak words of appropriate justice. (71) He will [then] amend for you your deeds and forgive you your sins. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly attained a great attainment.يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَقُولُوا قَوْلًا سَدِيدًا يُصْلِحْ لَكُمْ أَعْمَالَكُمْ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ
[Al-Ahzab 33:70-71]
These are the verses recited in the sermon of the contract. As for al-Fatihah, there is no basis for reciting it, so it is considered a religious innovation (bid'ah).
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4 من 12/ شرح الأصول الثلاثة / بم عرفت ربك؟ قل: بآياته ومخلوقاته/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:11:45)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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