The Difference Between Shighar and Badal in Unveiling the Face for the Other’s Sons
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Your Eminence! Two men, each of whom married the other’s ward, and after a period of time, each of them divorced his wife.
Is it permissible for the two women, or for one of them, to unveil her face to the other man’s sons from another woman? And is there a difference between shighar and badal in this issue?
It is as if you are asking about the husband’s sons after the woman is divorced from him: is it permissible for her to unveil to them?Answer: Yes.
It is permissible. As for the issue of shighar and badal, there is a difference between them: Badal is when it is head for head: “Marry me your daughter, and the mahr is my daughter; I will marry her to you or to your son.” This is badal and is not permissible;Because Allah says: [Al-Nisa: 24] .
And the second: The marriage of shighar is when one marries the other his ward on the condition that the other marries him his ward, and he does not say: “This is the mahr of this one”; but they do not assign a mahr to them. This is also haram, and the marriage is not valid.
The questioner: Is it permissible in a shighar marriage for the woman to unveil to her husband’s sons from another woman?Answer: This depends on the in-law relationship: do its rulings become established through an invalid marriage?And the correct view is: They do not become established;Because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: (Whoever does an action that is not in accordance with our command, it is rejected) meaning: it is rejected from him.
Is it permissible for the two women, or for one of them, to unveil her face to the other man’s sons from another woman? And is there a difference between shighar and badal in this issue?
It is as if you are asking about the husband’s sons after the woman is divorced from him: is it permissible for her to unveil to them?Answer: Yes.
It is permissible. As for the issue of shighar and badal, there is a difference between them: Badal is when it is head for head: “Marry me your daughter, and the mahr is my daughter; I will marry her to you or to your son.” This is badal and is not permissible;Because Allah says:
And lawful to you are [all others] beyond these, [provided] that you seek them [in marriage] with [gifts from] your property
وَأُحِلَّ لَكُمْ مَا وَرَاءَ ذَلِكُمْ أَنْ تَبْتَغُوا بِأَمْوَالِكُمْAnd the second: The marriage of shighar is when one marries the other his ward on the condition that the other marries him his ward, and he does not say: “This is the mahr of this one”; but they do not assign a mahr to them. This is also haram, and the marriage is not valid.
The questioner: Is it permissible in a shighar marriage for the woman to unveil to her husband’s sons from another woman?Answer: This depends on the in-law relationship: do its rulings become established through an invalid marriage?And the correct view is: They do not become established;Because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: (Whoever does an action that is not in accordance with our command, it is rejected) meaning: it is rejected from him.