{"id":2712,"date":"2020-12-03T09:55:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T07:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2020-12-03T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T07:55:38","slug":"appointing-a-non-muslim-guardian-or-representative-at-the-time-of-nikah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2712","title":{"rendered":"Appointing a non-Muslim Guardian or Representative at the time of Nikah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Appointing a non-Muslim Guardian or Representative at the time of Nikah<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. An adult woman has recently reverted to Islam and she intends making Nikah. Her father and brothers are non-Muslims. Can her father or brothers be her Wali at the time of her Nikah? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> One of the pre-conditions for one to act as a guardian (Wali) on behalf of a Muslim is that he must be a Muslim. This is because a guardian (Wali) enjoys certain rights and powers over a Muslim that a non-Muslim does not enjoy. Allah Ta\u2019ala states in the Qur\u2019an:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cAllah shall never give the disbelievers authority over the believers.\u201d<\/em><strong>(Surah Nisaa; V:141)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As such, if one\u2019s father or brothers are non-Muslims, they cannot act as guardians (Wali\u2019s) on behalf of a Muslim male or female. Instead, they may be appointed as representatives (Wakeels) who simply represent a person on their mandate without having any rights or powers over them.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, in the enquired case, a revert Muslim may appoint her non-Muslim father or brothers <strong>as representatives (Wakeels)<\/strong> to represent her at the time of her Nikah and <strong>not as guardians (Wali\u2019s).<\/strong> <strong>(Shaami 3\/76)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, it is best for a revert Muslim woman to have the local Imaam\/scholar involved throughout the process and to consider appointing him as her representative (Wakeel) at the time of her Nikah.<\/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>Appointing a non-Muslim Guardian or Representative at the time of Nikah Q. An adult woman has recently reverted to Islam and she intends making Nikah. Her<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-2712","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\/2712","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=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2713,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}