The ruling on one who assists in the continuation of a marriage by shighar

Question:
What is the ruling on the reconciliation that takes place between tribes when two men have entered into a marriage by shighar, and then [the reconciler] tries to cover it up, hides them, and reconciles them so that the shighar between them is not completed? What is the ruling on this?

Answer:
This is not reconciliation; this means removing the shighar. If they married by shighar, this is not permissible, and it is obligatory for each of them to change the marriage to a lawful marriage. So if a person causes them to be guided and teaches them so that they change the invalid marriage to a lawful marriage, may Allah reward him with good.

Question: Did they not change it? Did they continue with their old custom?

Answer: No, this is assisting them in falsehood, and he becomes a wrongdoer. This is assisting them in falsehood. As for the one who helps them in good, advises them, and says: Change it, marry her with a lawful contract without stipulating the second woman, or divorce her if she does not want you, then he has done well. But if he says: Their matter is not sufficient, nothing has happened, so let them remain in falsehood, then this is assisting in sin and transgression.