{"id":1842,"date":"2019-07-11T15:07:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2019-07-11T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T13:07:07","slug":"when-is-a-step-father-considered-a-mahram-to-his-step-daughters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"When is a step-father considered a Mahram to his step-daughters?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>When is a step-father considered a Mahram to his step-daughters?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. I was divorced and I remarried. I have one son from my second wife. My second wife has two daughters from her previous marriage. One is 18 and the other is 22. Am I a Mahram to my second wife\u2019s two daughters?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>Yes, you are a Mahram (non-stranger) to your second wife\u2019s daughters.<\/p>\n<p>This ruling is based on the condition that if a husband <strong>has had<\/strong> <strong>conjugal relations<\/strong> with his wife, then the husband would be a <strong>Mahram<\/strong> to the wife\u2019s daughters. If he <strong>did not have conjugal relations<\/strong> with his wife, then he will <strong>not be a Mahram<\/strong> to the wife\u2019s daughters as explained in the Quran. Allah Ta\u2019ala mentions:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cProhibited for you are\u2026your step-daughters&#8230; (From women) with whom you have had intercourse though if you have not had intercourse with them, there is no sin on you, (your step-daughters would not be prohibited for you) <strong>[Surah Nisa 4\/24]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is a step-father considered a Mahram to his step-daughters?\u00a0 Q. I was divorced and I remarried. I have one son from my second wife. My<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-women","category-nikah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}