Marrying One’s Daughter Without Inquiry into a Family of Another Creed

Question

I married my daughter into a certain place without acquaintance. When my daughter went to her in-laws’ home, it turned out that they are people of another creed. I cannot even determine which creed it is that they follow. One day it happened that in the morning they told my daughter: “Keep a fast.” My daughter said: “We have never kept such a fast anywhere.” These people fasted and broke the fast after ‘Asr. They reproached my daughter very severely.

Answer

Marrying off a girl without inquiry and investigation is an unwise act, through which both the girl’s life can be ruined and her religion corrupted. Now an investigation should be made: if the husband’s beliefs are not Islamic beliefs, if they do not hold salat to be fard, and hold the fast to last only until after ‘Asr and not until sunset, then nikah with such a person is…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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