Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to Conduct a Marriage on Zoom
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim.
There's a question that is quite often asked, and especially during
the lockdown is how does one
conduct a marriage, how is a marriage and Nika conducted in the
Islamically sound way, during a lockdown when people cannot gather
and all be in one place, because generally what you have is you
have the bride, you have the groom, and you have generally a
representative of the bride. And you have two witnesses, and you
generally have a shake, or somebody who's going to conduct
the Nica. And you have generally other people as well. Now that's
happening, you know, that's very difficult sometimes do in a
masjid, or otherwise. So I've done a few knickers during this time
when I did in America, and another one in Sharla, I'm going to do
today. So the way to do it is actually not that difficult, it's
actually quite easy. The assumption is that if the, if the
if the bride and groom are in different places, let's just say
like, let's just say that Mohammed is in the UK, in London, and his
wife to be is, is in Morocco, or is in India, or Pakistan, or
Egypt, or wherever it is, then generally, what happens is that,
you know, you can get together on Zoom. But physically, this is the
condition that physically there needs to be the the main people
need to be together physically. Now, it's difficult if the wife
cannot be in the UK because of visa issues, or whatever. So
generally, what happens as in when we do I mean, normal days as well,
that the wife makes somebody her representative. So what she would
do from Morocco, or Egypt or wherever, is that she would make
somebody here, who knows Mohammed, maybe his brother, maybe his
father, maybe somebody else, the representative to represent her.
And she can send him an email, or a letter or something of that
nature to make him the represent I make it the representative for my
marriage to Mohammed for this dowry amount, mahatva, Timmy 1000
pounds, whatever it is, right? Once she's done that, that person
becomes a representative. Now, physically speaking, the four
people that need to be together in one place is the groom, and the
bride or the bride's representative. So in this case,
is the brighter of those two people need to be in the same
place, along with the two witnesses who witness them, the
shake, conducting the Nikka doesn't have to be physically
present, he can be present on a phone on Zoom, right? Through some
wireless contact or some sort, then they can be whoever else
wants to be, there can also be present over zoom. But the four
people need to be there, they could be in one place, they could
be, you know, distancing themselves, as long as they can
see and hear one another. That's enough. So now what will happen is
that the Sheikh will, you know, point out who the groom is
Mohammed, and the representative of the bride, the bride can be on
zoom as well. But generally speaking, we have the
representative of the bride physically present, because she's
in another country. So let's just say Brother use of right who's a
cousin of Muhammad, he is representing the bride. Right? Oh,
it's his uncle, for example. So she is representing bride. So now
the Sheikh will ask the brides representative that you as the
bride's representative, take her name, right? Whatever, Selma,
personnel, whatever her name is that, do you give consent to her
marriage to Mohammed? And you'll say, Yes, you know, for this dowry
amount in front of the Two Witnesses, and the groom will,
will be asked that, do you accept her in your marriage for the set
amount in front of witnesses? And you'll say, yes. Right. So the
witness the two witnesses who are present there, you know, they're
physically witnessing this, that's all you need, right? The two
males, right, could be one male and two females as well, but
generally two males, and that's it, the Nikka is done, and
everybody else is watching online, right, there's just not going to
be probably any food or whatever. Now, obviously, the you can give a
one email, one walima doesn't have to be, it's the husband's
responsibility to give a one email, he can give good feet to
three people, he can send some food somewhere, right, you know,
get an Uber Delivery or something to several people, and, or
whatever the case is. And that's it. That's it. So just to
reiterate, the main thing is to actually just have
the four main people in one place, the groom, the bride's
representative, and the two witnesses, the shake can be
somebody else somewhere else. And anybody you know, there can be
other people watching as well. This is according to the agreed
upon. There are other views that make it a bit more lenient about
certain other differences, but I think just to keep it safe, why,
especially since it's possible just to make this proxy of someone
to Representative represent, then this is the way it should be done.
May Allah bless your nickels and, you know, don't delay don't delay
marriages because of this, you know, because of the pandemic. Get
married if you have to. And if you have any other questions, just
contact us. Allah bless us.