{"id":1991,"date":"2019-09-21T09:41:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T07:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2019-09-21T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T07:41:50","slug":"the-status-of-polyandry-in-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1991","title":{"rendered":"The status of Polyandry in Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>The status of Polyandry in Islam<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. A woman is in Nikah with one man whilst she is also in \u2018Nikah\u2019 with another man. She is also causing many problems for the other man&#8217;s first wife. Can you please advise which man is Halaal to the woman? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> Polyandry (a woman having more than one husband) is not permissible in Islam. A married woman cannot marry another man unless the first husband divorces her or he passes away.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, in the enquired case, if the woman\u2019s first husband did not divorce her or pass way, then the woman\u2019s second \u2018marriage\u2019 is not valid.<\/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>The status of Polyandry in Islam Q. A woman is in Nikah with one man whilst she is also in \u2018Nikah\u2019 with another man. She is<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":[67,59,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-women","category-nikah","category-talaq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","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=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}