Question
What is the status of the Muslim marriage certificates which the Home Affairs now issues?
Answer
The marriage certificates issued by the government are scraps of paper in terms of the Shariah. Islamically these scraps of paper have no validity. They are only for government-use.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 27 No 09
- PDF page
- 9
Appears under MAKTAB FOR GIRLS (approximate).