Question
What is the status of a Muslim woman who has married a Hindu man? Are the children of this union Muslims?
Answer
A Muslim woman cannever be married to a kaafir man. She is living with the Hindu in zina. The children are illegitimate. If she believes that her 'marriage' is valid, then she is a murtad. If she accepts that she is living in adultery and that there is no marriage with the man in terms of the Shariah, and if she does not practise any Hindu rituals, then whilst she will remain a Muslim, her Imaan will be on the verge of extinction. If she rears the children as Muslims, they will be Muslim otherwise not.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 21 No 10
- PDF page
- 4
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