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

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The conversation is about a woman namedraim who was asked about a marriage between non-Muslims and the Sharia. The woman is facing challenges in her Muslim world and is struggling to deal with it. She talks about her struggles and how she faced problems in her family.

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			If you're a lawyer, you might like this.
		
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			Imam Al-Shafi'i was asked, Are there
		
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			any verses in the Qur'an that showed
		
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			the validity of a marriage between non-Muslims?
		
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			Hypothetical law, because there was a time when
		
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			the Sharia was rocking it so hard, they
		
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			could do hypothetical law.
		
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			Now we're catching up, like it's all catch
		
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			up, right?
		
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			Kind of following what's going on.
		
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			What's Bitcoin?
		
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			Okay, this, like, right?
		
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			And that's the state also of the broader
		
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			Muslim world.
		
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			We've been, we see now what happened today
		
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			in Lebanon.
		
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			Like, subhanAllah, like, we have so many challenges.
		
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			I don't like blaming Muslims for our problems,
		
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			man.
		
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			This is hard to deal with.
		
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			I lived in the Muslim world for years.
		
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			It's a very, I don't like it when
		
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			people here blame people overseas.
		
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			Go live there, man.
		
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			Right, go, if you're so big and bad,
		
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			go over there and do like some egalitarian
		
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			lecture on, you know, democracy and like the
		
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			equalization of the economy and, you know, social
		
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			stratification.
		
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			We will never see you again.
		
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			We'll see how brave you are, buddy.
		
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			I mean, after I gave this speech last
		
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			week here, people off stage were like, I
		
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			don't know if you should have said that,
		
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			man.
		
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			I don't know if you should have given
		
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			that talk at the protest here.
		
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			I was like, why not?
		
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			Like, so, you know, it's easy, but Muslims
		
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			are incredibly resilient, beautiful people, like, the stuff
		
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			we've been through, it's incredible, like, look in
		
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			Bangladesh, man, 170 people with no electricity or
		
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			no internet.
		
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			You know, I talked to, last week we
		
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			did a live, a young man from Bangladesh
		
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			came on, he was like, they killed 1
		
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			,500 people so far, I saw them shoot
		
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			a 14-year-old.
		
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			You know, like, man, and we're here arguing
		
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			about like wet samosas and, you know, like,
		
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			what's for iftar?
		
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			I mean, it's not fair, man.
		
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			So ask Allah Ta'ala bil'afiyah.
		
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			بَسَّ يَصْلَ نَا رَنْدَ تَلَهَب وَمْ مُرَأَتُهُ Imam
		
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			Al-Shafi'i said, the evidence for this
		
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			is Allah says, وَمْ مُرَأَتُهُ The wife of
		
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			Abu Lahab.
		
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			So Allah, if you think about it, it's
		
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			interesting, Imam Al-Shafi'i uses inference.
		
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			He said, Allah said that, that's the wife
		
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			of Abu Lahab.
		
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			So that means their marriage is valid in
		
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			front of who?
		
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			In front of God.
		
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			So that's an evidence.
		
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			And here you see the brilliance of Al
		
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			-Shafi'i, he's in front of the law,
		
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			he's not behind the law.
		
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			The law is like in front, right?
		
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			So he goes and extrapolates, وَمْ مُرَأَتُهُ يعني
		
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			زوجته, his wife, Allah calls the wife of
		
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			Abu Lahab, اُمْ جَمِيل, his wife, that means
		
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			their marriage is valid.
		
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			It's like a cool thing.
		
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			He also said, وَمْ رَأَتُ فِرْعَونَ He said,
		
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			the wife of Fir'aun.
		
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			So, just a side note to show you
		
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			sometimes, scholars, it's cool how they take stuff
		
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			from Qur'an.
		
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			But the wife of Abu Lahab also was
		
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			a problem, man.
		
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			A big problem.
		
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			She was very difficult, the aunt of the
		
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			Messenger of Allah.
		
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			And many of us know, it's like I
		
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			said it before, when you're a new Muslim
		
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			and people are like, yeah, so your parents
		
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			Muslim?