You said that compatibility in religion is necessary between disbelief and faith, and this is the wife of Pharaoh who was a believer and Pharaoh who was a disbeliever, so how do you answer that?
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The Shaykh : He is asking, saying: You said that compatibility in religion is necessary between disbelief and faith, and this is the wife of Pharaoh who was a believer and Pharaoh who was a disbeliever, so what do you answer with regarding this?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : It does not contradict. Listen to the answer.
The student: Shaykh, the wife of Pharaoh did not embrace Islam until Musa came, and Musa was not revealed to until Pharaoh may have already been married, so she believed while he was married.
The Shaykh : Meaning she believed after the marriage.
The student: So when she displayed her faith, he killed her.
The Shaykh : This requires evidence. It requires evidence that she embraced Islam after [the marriage] and that he killed her as well.
The student: This was the law before ours, and the law before ours is valid for us unless our law comes with a contrary ruling, and our law has come with a contrary ruling.
The Shaykh : We say this was the law before ours. Even in our initial law, it was permissible for a woman to marry a disbeliever while she was a Muslim. And this will come to us, if Allah wills, in the book. This means that the marriage of a Muslim woman to a disbeliever was not forbidden until the sixth year of the Hijrah. How much time had passed since the mission? Nineteen years since the Prophetic mission, and the Muslim woman was lawful for the disbeliever. Did you understand, Salim?
The student: Yes, indeed.
The Shaykh : So, this was the law before ours and not a law for us, and the ruling was abrogated, yes?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : It does not contradict. Listen to the answer.
The student: Shaykh, the wife of Pharaoh did not embrace Islam until Musa came, and Musa was not revealed to until Pharaoh may have already been married, so she believed while he was married.
The Shaykh : Meaning she believed after the marriage.
The student: So when she displayed her faith, he killed her.
The Shaykh : This requires evidence. It requires evidence that she embraced Islam after [the marriage] and that he killed her as well.
The student: This was the law before ours, and the law before ours is valid for us unless our law comes with a contrary ruling, and our law has come with a contrary ruling.
The Shaykh : We say this was the law before ours. Even in our initial law, it was permissible for a woman to marry a disbeliever while she was a Muslim. And this will come to us, if Allah wills, in the book. This means that the marriage of a Muslim woman to a disbeliever was not forbidden until the sixth year of the Hijrah. How much time had passed since the mission? Nineteen years since the Prophetic mission, and the Muslim woman was lawful for the disbeliever. Did you understand, Salim?
The student: Yes, indeed.
The Shaykh : So, this was the law before ours and not a law for us, and the ruling was abrogated, yes?