Marrying a Girl Outside Her Biradari

Question

Question: (1) Zayd belongs to the biradari (kinship community) of the Chhipas (a caste of cloth printers), who do cloth printing. This biradari generally confines weddings and marriage ties to people of the biradari only, but there are also particular examples apart from this. One of Zayd’s daughters is a widow, divorced.

Answer

(1) If the girl consents and the girl’s father consents too, then in view of the benefit (maslaha) there is no harm in it; rather, it is permissible and proper. (2) This is oppression (zulm); there are harms in it. (3) This is a wrong deed; it is assisting a wrong deed; it is not permissible according to the Shari‘a, and its outcome in this world and the Hereafter is evil. (4)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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