Suhaib Webb – The Validity of Marriage between Non-Muslims in the Quran- Insights from Imam Ash-Shafi

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Imam Al-Shafi'i was asked, Are there

any verses in the Qur'an that showed

the validity of a marriage between non-Muslims?

Hypothetical law, because there was a time when

the Sharia was rocking it so hard, they

could do hypothetical law.

Now we're catching up, like it's all catch

up, right?

Kind of following what's going on.

What's Bitcoin?

Okay, this, like, right?

And that's the state also of the broader

Muslim world.

We've been, we see now what happened today

in Lebanon.

Like, subhanAllah, like, we have so many challenges.

I don't like blaming Muslims for our problems,

man.

This is hard to deal with.

I lived in the Muslim world for years.

It's a very, I don't like it when

people here blame people overseas.

Go live there, man.

Right, go, if you're so big and bad,

go over there and do like some egalitarian

lecture on, you know, democracy and like the

equalization of the economy and, you know, social

stratification.

We will never see you again.

We'll see how brave you are, buddy.

I mean, after I gave this speech last

week here, people off stage were like, I

don't know if you should have said that,

man.

I don't know if you should have given

that talk at the protest here.

I was like, why not?

Like, so, you know, it's easy, but Muslims

are incredibly resilient, beautiful people, like, the stuff

we've been through, it's incredible, like, look in

Bangladesh, man, 170 people with no electricity or

no internet.

You know, I talked to, last week we

did a live, a young man from Bangladesh

came on, he was like, they killed 1

,500 people so far, I saw them shoot

a 14-year-old.

You know, like, man, and we're here arguing

about like wet samosas and, you know, like,

what's for iftar?

I mean, it's not fair, man.

So ask Allah Ta'ala bil'afiyah.

بَسَّ يَصْلَ نَا رَنْدَ تَلَهَب وَمْ مُرَأَتُهُ Imam

Al-Shafi'i said, the evidence for this

is Allah says, وَمْ مُرَأَتُهُ The wife of

Abu Lahab.

So Allah, if you think about it, it's

interesting, Imam Al-Shafi'i uses inference.

He said, Allah said that, that's the wife

of Abu Lahab.

So that means their marriage is valid in

front of who?

In front of God.

So that's an evidence.

And here you see the brilliance of Al

-Shafi'i, he's in front of the law,

he's not behind the law.

The law is like in front, right?

So he goes and extrapolates, وَمْ مُرَأَتُهُ يعني

زوجته, his wife, Allah calls the wife of

Abu Lahab, اُمْ جَمِيل, his wife, that means

their marriage is valid.

It's like a cool thing.

He also said, وَمْ رَأَتُ فِرْعَونَ He said,

the wife of Fir'aun.

So, just a side note to show you

sometimes, scholars, it's cool how they take stuff

from Qur'an.

But the wife of Abu Lahab also was

a problem, man.

A big problem.

She was very difficult, the aunt of the

Messenger of Allah.

And many of us know, it's like I

said it before, when you're a new Muslim

and people are like, yeah, so your parents

Muslim?