What are the conditions that must be met for a woman from the People of the Book so that it is permissible for a Muslim to marry her?
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The student : You mentioned once the three characteristics that allow a Muslim to marry a woman from the People of the Book.
The Shaykh : How?
The student : Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) described the woman from the People of the Book with three characteristics that are very rare to find in a woman from the People of the Book today.
The Shaykh: Yes, by Allah.
The student :[An-Nisa 4:25], and most of the brothers who married a woman from the People of the Book suffer because they did not find her to be a virgin!
The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!
The student : And this is something agreed upon among them; as I mentioned, I recall saying that the one who performs the delivery performs this act from the beginning of the birth until she has freedom from childhood.
The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!
The student : Yes, indeed, so the existing conditions, they say, are not available now.
The Shaykh : Correct, may Allah reward you, this is good.
The Shaykh: I mean:[Al-Ma'idah 5:5], the chaste women, it is known what they are.
Another student: I mean, the Shaykh said a fundamental word: the Muslim woman today is barely safe from her evil, so how about the disbeliever?!
The Shaykh : I remember in Damascus, a Turkish officer used to frequent my place, my shop. He had witnessed the last battles between the Turks and the Bulgarians, and that they were able in some of the campaigns to take over "Bulgaria." He said: When we stayed there and learned something of their customs and traditions, among them—those wicked, evil people!—so that a girl would not be known to have had multiple partners, from the day the baby falls from the pregnant woman’s womb, if it is a girl, the midwife immediately twists her with a twist to open what? Her virginity, and she lives in a state of being opened! So if it is said: So-and-so married so-and-so, and it turns out to be known, the answer is pre-determined, whereas she is done to like animals, meaning without any restriction, and I seek refuge in Allah! So such women today, it is not permissible to marry them.
The student : Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh : How?
The student : Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) described the woman from the People of the Book with three characteristics that are very rare to find in a woman from the People of the Book today.
The Shaykh: Yes, by Allah.
The student :
[They should be] chaste, neither [of] those who commit unlawful intercourse randomly nor those who take [secret] lovers
مُحْصَنَاتٍ غَيْرَ مُسَافِحَاتٍ وَلَا مُتَّخِذَاتِ أَخْدَانٍThe Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!
The student : And this is something agreed upon among them; as I mentioned, I recall saying that the one who performs the delivery performs this act from the beginning of the birth until she has freedom from childhood.
The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!
The student : Yes, indeed, so the existing conditions, they say, are not available now.
The Shaykh : Correct, may Allah reward you, this is good.
The Shaykh: I mean:
chaste women from among those who were given the Scripture before you
وَالْمُحْصَنَاتُ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْAnother student: I mean, the Shaykh said a fundamental word: the Muslim woman today is barely safe from her evil, so how about the disbeliever?!
The Shaykh : I remember in Damascus, a Turkish officer used to frequent my place, my shop. He had witnessed the last battles between the Turks and the Bulgarians, and that they were able in some of the campaigns to take over "Bulgaria." He said: When we stayed there and learned something of their customs and traditions, among them—those wicked, evil people!—so that a girl would not be known to have had multiple partners, from the day the baby falls from the pregnant woman’s womb, if it is a girl, the midwife immediately twists her with a twist to open what? Her virginity, and she lives in a state of being opened! So if it is said: So-and-so married so-and-so, and it turns out to be known, the answer is pre-determined, whereas she is done to like animals, meaning without any restriction, and I seek refuge in Allah! So such women today, it is not permissible to marry them.
The student : Praise be to Allah.
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