Can non-mulsims males marry muslim females? And vice-versa?

Question

I've heard that non-Muslim guys cannot marry Muslim ladies because Islam forbids this. Is this true?

What about a Muslim guy marrying a Catholic lady?

What about the children of a muslim/non-muslim couple? They become Catholic/Muslim according to their own will or someone will try to influence?

Answer 1

Muslims are happy to take in non-Muslim women. They are not overjoyed at losing people to other religions, which they regard as infidels.

The Quran says, "Fight and slay the idolaters (infidels) wherever ye find them, and seize them, take them captives, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every ambush and stratagem of war." - Sura 9:5.

Answer 2

No, non-Muslim males cannot marry Muslim females according to Islam. Although Muslim men can marry non-Muslim women if they are people of the Book (i.e Jews, Christians).

This may not seem fair but the idea is to keep the children Muslim. As we all know the men have more influence on their children from keeping their last name to what they decide their children will follow, hence this is the reason for the restriction.

Answer 3

A Muslim woman shouldn't marry a Non-Muslim man. They say this because maybe it would be hard for her to keep her faith properly.
A muslim man is permitted to marry a non-Muslim woman, but generally they all end up converting anyways!
I think if a Catholic married a Muslim , the Catholic would read the Quran and become Muslim.
I say this because what Catholics believe is similar to what Muslims believe, What is in the Bible is in the Quran. It just brings things to a clearer light...

Answer 4

-you can marry the chaste women from among the people of the book (christian and jewish):

[5] ..... (Lawful to you in marriage) are chaste women from the believers and chaste women from those who were given the Scripture (Jews and Christians) .......
Quran 5:5

-Such a thing is forbidden to the believers (the adulteress and those who take partner in worship with Allah):

[3] The adulterer marries not but an adulteress or a Mushrikah and the adulteress none marries her except an adulterer or a Muskrik (take partners with Allah in worship) Such a thing is forbidden to the believers (of Islâmic Monotheism).
Quran 24:3

Answer 5

Islam, being a religion and a comprehensive way of life, cares a lot for the stability of family life.

In its quest to establish a very stable family, Islam stresses the importance of choosing a life partner. Muslims are encouraged to choose a partner who shares a lot of things with them, like language, experiences, background and, above all, religion. This, socially speaking, is meant to maintain a life-long marriage.

When a man and a woman from two different countries or backgrounds decide to get married to each other, Islam wants still to ascertain that there is something common between them.

Therefore, it says that they should at least believe in God, which means that a Muslim man and a Muslim woman cannot get married to a non-believer (i.e., someone who does not believe in God at all) since there is no common ground between them and thus the marriage will inevitably fail.

This is the reason for the verse of Surat Al-Baqarah, whose translation is this:

*{Do not marry unbelieving women (idolaters), until they believe: A slave woman who believes is better than an unbelieving woman, even though she allures you. Nor marry (your girls) to unbelievers until they believe: A man slave who believes is better than an unbeliever, even though he allures you. Unbelievers do (but) beckon you to the Fire. But Allah beckons by His Grace to the Garden (of bliss) and forgiveness, and makes His Signs clear to mankind: That they may celebrate His praise.}* (Al-Baqarah 2:221)

In this verse, Allah makes it clear that such a union involving a believing man and a non-believing woman, or a non-believing man and a believing woman is sure to fail and thus cannot happen.

When coming to the issue of People of the Book (i.e., Jews and Christians), it is totally different because they believe in God, which shows that there is a background shared by the man and the woman who are willing to marry.

Yet, belief in God is not everything here because belief in God is a part of a whole, which is the belief in the messengers sent by God. Muslims believe in all messengers of God from Adam till Muhammad, including Moses and Jesus (peace be upon them all).

A Jew or a Christian does not believe in Muhammad as a prophet; rather, he or she sees Muhammad as a sorcerer or pseudo-messenger. This makes it clear that the Muslim owns the whole complete version of belief then, since he or she believes in the oneness of God and the oneness of the concept of prophethood.

Since the man is normally the head of the family and it is he who is required to win the bread for the family, it would be fair that a husband in a mixed-faith marriage is a Muslim because he will normally respect the religion of his wife since he accepts her prophet, while the opposite is not true. Still, a Muslim man will be able to manage the affairs of the family where the wife belongs to another faith than that of the husband.

But what will happen if the opposite is there, in other words, if the husband is non-Muslim (a Christian or a Jew) while the wife is Muslim? Simply, the head of the family will be the part that does not respect the concept of the unity of prophethood.

A husband who believes in Jesus and shows great respect for him will find no harm in his wife attending church services or having a Bible in the house and reading from it because he shares with her the respect for Jesus and he sees that Jesus and Muhammad are "graduates of the same school," conveying the same message and coming to work for the benefit of mankind.

On the other hand, a husband who sees Muhammad as a liar or a pseudo-prophet will not see the Qur'an as significant because he believes that it is a collection of fabrications. And he will not be supportive of his Muslim wife's observing her religious duties and wearing her hijab.

What is even more important is that when a family problem occurs, it would be easier for us as Muslims to talk to a Muslim husband, remind him of his responsibilities that are imposed on him by Islam, and ask him to fulfill such duties and responsibilities toward his wife.

When the husband is a Muslim, then such a mission will not be difficult because an imam or a religious leader has an authority over him. Such a mission will be more difficult, of course, when the husband is a Christian or a Jew because a Muslim religious leader will have no authority over him to make him give his wife the rights that Islam gives her. Though his own religious leaders can talk to him, this may or may not end according to Islamic Laws.

**for about the children:

Scholars are of the view that the children born to the Christian or Jewish wife of a Muslim husband must be raised as Muslims. The man who wishes to marry a Jewish or Christian woman must consider this fact first. This is a problem in countries where the mother may go to court and get a verdict to the effect that the children can be raised in her religion. In such countries, the Muslim men must have an agreement with their wives in advance to the effect that the children will be raised as Muslims. Otherwise they should not go in for such marriages. According to some scholars, those who go for such marriages without caring for the future of the kids are out of Islam.

but for marriage between a muslim women and non muslim man is forbidden read here:

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?cid=1119503543380&pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar%2FFatwaE%2FFatwaEAskTheScholar

Answer 6

from understanding about Islam, yes a muslim woman cannot marry any other religion except a muslim man.

and for a muslim man, he can marry either christian or jewish who worship one God without partners (example: Johava witness who seperate God and Jesus in worship).

for the children, it's obligated to influence the children to become muslim.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Oh shut up Ivri, you totally ignored verse 9:4 and 9:6:

"Except those of the idolaters with whom you made an agreement, then they have not failed you in anything and have not backed up any one against you, so fulfill their agreement to the end of their term; surely Allah loves those who are careful (of their duty)."

"And if one of the idolaters seek protection from you, grant him protection till he hears the word of Allah, then make him attain his place of safety; this is because they are a people who do not know. "

Sheesh.