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Nikah (Marriage) - Talaaq (Divorce) The Majlis Vol 27 No 05, p.3

Two girls born as Siamese twins are joined at the hips.

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)

ing the incident of Ali Comment

This particular case appears to be one person who is naturally deformed. Everything which is done and everything that happens are occurrences to a single person. In this particular case as explained in the question, there are no two separate desires or two persons having separate urges. All acts happen and are discharged as if by a single person. If these „twins‟ had to be surgically separated, we believe that „both‟ would die simultaneously.

If medical experts could determine that in this particular case, all senses function as if by a single person, it will confirm that this set of „twins‟ is in fact one person. As such Nikah will be valid. Not all Siamese twins are of the same kind. Most have been surgically separated.

Obviously, our comment is not the final word. As stated in Fataawa Daarul Uloom, it is an issue which requires further and considerable reflection. Allah Ta‟ala knows best.

the same time, a man is al-

ing Hadhrat Faatimah (Radhiyallahu anha) was exclusively for her. Other women should not stupidly compare themselves to Hadhrat Faatimah (Radhiyallahu anha).

Regarding the „hurt‟ women feel, they just have to swallow and bottle it up and not fight the Law of Allah Ta‟ala, and commit kufr, thereby losing their Imaan. For their Sabr, they will gain the rank of a Shaheed, and for their rejection they will be assigned to Jahannam.

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