{"id":2192,"date":"2019-10-18T09:16:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2019-10-18T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:16:14","slug":"publicizing-a-nikah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"Publicizing a Nikah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Publicizing a Nikah<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. My fianc\u00e9e is a foreigner and I am a local South African? My fianc\u00e9e wishes to make Nikah with me secretly? Is it correct to make Nikah secretly in Islam?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> After a potential couple decides to get married, the Nikah of both couples should be announced and made known to the people. Consider the following Hadeeth:<\/p>\n<p>Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said: \u201cPublicize the Nikah.\u201d <strong>(Musnad Ahmad)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, if a couple decides to make Nikah secretly, there are many challenges and consequences they will be faced with:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The couple will not freely interact with each other as they would want to conceal their Nikah\/marriage. This defeats the purpose of a Nikah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The couple will not be free of accusations of an illicit relationship when seen in public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Pregnancy with its consequences and many more consequences\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the Nikah should not be done secretly. It should be publicized.<\/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>Publicizing a Nikah Q. My fianc\u00e9e is a foreigner and I am a local South African? My fianc\u00e9e wishes to make Nikah with me secretly? 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":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nikah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","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=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}