To Marry or Not to Marry?
- From: "Kangarooistan" <kanga@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:05:47 -0500
Qur'an Contradiction
To Marry or Not to Marry?
The Quran prohibits Muslim men from marrying unbelievers and associators,
saying that it is better for them to marry believing women:
And do not marry the idolatresses until they believe, and certainly a
believing maid is better than an idolatress woman, even though she should
please you; and do not give (believing women) in marriage to idolaters until
they believe, and certainly a believing servant is better than an idolater,
even though he should please you; these invite to the fire, and Allah
invites to the garden and to forgiveness by His will, and makes clear His
communications to men, that they may be mindful. S. 2:221 Shakir
The words rendered as idolatresses and idolaters are from the Arabic term
mushrik, which comes from shirk, and more literally means one who associates
or ascribes partners to Allah. This is how the late Muhammad Asad translated
these words:
AND DO NOT many women who ascribe divinity to aught beside God ere they
attain to [true] belief: for any believing bondwoman [of God] is certainly
better than a woman who ascribes divinity to aught beside God, even though
she please you greatly. And do not give your women in marriage to men who
ascribe divinity to aught beside God ere they attain to [true] belief: for-
any believing bondman [of God] is certainly better than a man who ascribes
divinity to aught beside God, even though he please you greatly. [Such as]
these invite unto the fire, whereas God invites unto paradise, and unto [the
achievement of] forgiveness by His leave; and He makes clear His messages
unto mankind, so that they might bear them in mind. Muhammad Asad
The next text commands Muslim men not to remain married to unbelievers:
O you who believe! when believing women come to you flying, then examine
them; Allah knows best their faith; then if you find them to be believing
women, do not send them back to the unbelievers, neither are these (women)
lawful for them, nor are those (men) lawful for them, and give them what
they have spent; and no blame attaches to you in marrying them when you give
them their dowries; and hold not to the ties of marriage of unbelieving
women, and ask for what you have spent, and let them ask for what they have
spent. That is Allah's judgment; He judges between you, and Allah is
Knowing, Wise. S. 60:10 Shakir
The word for unbeliever comes from the term kafir, which refers to one who
makes kufr. According to the Quran, the Jews and Christians (specifically
the latter) fall under these categories of mushrik and kafir:
O ye who believe! surely, the idolaters are unclean (al-mushrikoona
najasun). So they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year of
theirs. And if you fear poverty, ALLAH will enrich you out of HIS bounty, if
HE pleases. Surely, ALLAH is All-Knowing, Wise. Fight those from among the
people of the Book, who believe not in ALLAH, nor in the Last Day, nor hold
as unlawful what ALLAH and HIS Messenger have declared to be unlawful, nor
follow the true religion, until they pay the tax considering it a favour and
acknowledge their subjection. And the Jews say, 'Ezra is the son of ALLAH,'
and the Christians say, 'the Messiah is the son of ALLAH;' that is what they
say with their mouths. They only imitate the saying of those who disbelieved
(kafaroo) before them. ALLAH's curse be on them! How they are turned away.
They have taken their priest and their monks for lords besides ALLAH. And so
have they taken the Messiah, son of Mary. And they were not commanded but to
worship the One God. There is no God but HE. Holy is HE far above what they
associate (yushrikoona) with Him! They seek to extinguish the light of ALLAH
with their mouths; but ALLAH refuses but to perfect HIS light, though the
disbelievers (al-kafiroona) may resent it. HE it is Who has sent HIS
Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, that HE may make it
prevail over every other religion, even though the idolaters
(al-mushrikoona) may resent it. S. 9:28-33 Sher Ali
The above passage claims that not only are Christians idolaters (or of those
who associate partners with God) and blasphemers (or disbelievers), but the
Jews are as well. It even classifies the Jews and Christians as unclean!
They indeed have disbelieved (kafara) who say, `Surely ALLAH - He is the
Messiah, son of Mary.' Say, `Who then has any power against ALLAH, if HE
desired to destroy the Messiah, son of Mary, and his mother and all those
that are in the earth?' And to ALLAH belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and
the earth and what is between them. HE creates what HE pleases and ALLAH has
power over all things. S. 5:17 Sher Ali
They are unbelievers (kafara) who say, 'God is the Messiah, Mary's son.'
For the Messiah said, 'Children of Israel, serve God, my Lord and your Lord.
Verily whoso associates with God anything (innahu man yushrik biAllahi), God
shall prohibit him entrance to Paradise, and his refuge shall be the Fire;
and wrongdoers shall have no helpers.' S. 5:72 Arberry
Certainly they disbelieve (kafara) who say: Surely Allah is the third
(person) of the three; and there is no god but the one God, and if they
desist not from what they say, a painful chastisement shall befall those
among them who disbelieve. S. 5:73 Shakir
The following sahih hadith confirms the view that Christians are both
mushriks and kafirs:
Narrated Nafi':
Whenever Ibn 'Umar was asked about marrying a Christian lady or a Jewess,
he would say: "Allah has made it unlawful for the believers to marry ladies
who ascribe partners in worship to Allah, and I do not know of a greater
thing, as regards to ascribing partners in worship, etc. to Allah, than that
a lady should say that Jesus is her Lord although he is just one of Allah's
slaves." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 63, Number 209)
This online Salafi site unapologetically calls Christians kafirs and says
that:
This is something that is well known among the Muslims, and they are
UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that the Christians are kaafirs, and even that those who
do not regard them as kaafirs ARE ALSO KAAFIRS. Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd
al-Wahhaab said concerning the things which are unanimously agreed to
nullify Islam:
"Whoever does not regard the mushrikoon as kaafirs, or doubts that they
are kaafirs, or thinks their religion is correct, is himself a kaafir." ...
(Question #12713: Is the trinity that the Christians believe in mentioned in
Islam?; underline and capital emphasis ours)
Yet the following verse says that Muslim men can marry women who are Jews
and Christians!
Today the good things are permitted you, and the food of those who were
given the Book is permitted to you, and permitted to them is your food;
Likewise believing women in wedlock, and in wedlock women of them who were
given the Book before you if you give them their wages, in wedlock and not
in licence, or as taking lovers. Whoso disbelieves in the faith, his work
has failed, and in the world to come he shall be among the losers. S. 5:5
Arberry
No true book of God would contradict itself like this. Hence, based on the
confusion in the above passages the Quran definitely cannot be from God.
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