Is the marriage of a foundling valid?
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The questioner : Is a foundling boy or girl married off?
The Shaykh : A foundling, what is his sin, poor thing? But he has no known tribe, correct, because he has no lineage. Who is a foundling? It is a child found abandoned in the markets or in the mosques, and a person takes him and raises him. This is a child of fornication. He is married off...
The questioner : Marriage to a foundling is permissible.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : Marriage to... is permissible.
The Shaykh : There is nothing wrong with marrying a foundling. That is, if a man wants to marry a foundling woman whose father he does not know, there is nothing wrong with it. Perhaps we would say to you: it is a reward.
The questioner : Even if, O Shaykh... they mock him for it.
The Shaykh : The people who mock him are from the age of ignorance, the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. And what is the result? The poor woman becomes sinful if she does not marry, out of fear that her children will be mocked. A person who fears his children will be mocked goes to another country where they do not know about him. But do we leave foundlings unmarried out of fear of this?
The Shaykh : A foundling, what is his sin, poor thing? But he has no known tribe, correct, because he has no lineage. Who is a foundling? It is a child found abandoned in the markets or in the mosques, and a person takes him and raises him. This is a child of fornication. He is married off...
The questioner : Marriage to a foundling is permissible.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : Marriage to... is permissible.
The Shaykh : There is nothing wrong with marrying a foundling. That is, if a man wants to marry a foundling woman whose father he does not know, there is nothing wrong with it. Perhaps we would say to you: it is a reward.
The questioner : Even if, O Shaykh... they mock him for it.
The Shaykh : The people who mock him are from the age of ignorance, the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. And what is the result? The poor woman becomes sinful if she does not marry, out of fear that her children will be mocked. A person who fears his children will be mocked goes to another country where they do not know about him. But do we leave foundlings unmarried out of fear of this?