Question
Two girls born as Siamese twins are joined at the hips. Neither one can do anything independently. If the one sits the other too has to sit. They have to sleep together, move together, go to the toilet together. This much I have witnessed myself. Furthermore, I have heard from others that both eat together, become sick together, are cured together, get haidh and tuhr together. Both have a common organ of urinating. Is Nikah valid to them?
Answer
`Indeed this is an astonishingly weird case. We have not found a ruling for this particular case in the Kutub of Fiqh. Since there does not appear to be an explicit recorded case, we have to resort to the principles of the Shariah for an answer…In the circumstances Nikah will not be valid… This issue requires further reflection.
(End of answer in Fataawa Darul Uloom)
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Appears under MARRIAGE TO SIAMESE TWINS (approximate).