Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to Conduct a Marriage on Zoom

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.