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Family & Marriage
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About this subject
Marriage and family questions are rarely abstract. They come from people deciding whether to marry, working out a contract, holding a household together, or ending one. This topic covers choosing a spouse, the marriage contract and mahr, the bride's gift, and the rights of spouses. Divorce, separation, custody and maintenance are covered on their own pages. Every answer here is a sourced summary of a fatwa. Start with the rights of spouses if your question is about daily life together.
Sections in this topic
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Choosing a Spouse
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Marriage Contract and Mahr
Concluding a marriage: pillars and conditions, the guardian and witnesses, the mahr, marriage without a guardian or in secret, and the validity of a contract.
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Rights of Spouses
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Divorce and Its Rulings
Ending a marriage and what follows: the procedure of divorce, khul', annulment, iddah, taking the wife back, and the spouses' obligations after separation.
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Interfaith Marriage
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Intimacy
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Custody and Maintenance
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In-Laws and Extended Family
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Polygamy
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Kinship, Lineage and Marriage Impediments
Kinship and its consequences: who is a mahram; impediments to marriage by lineage, marriage and breastfeeding; establishing or denying paternity (firash, li'an, DNA), and the status of a child born outside marriage.
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Divorce Wording, Oaths and Conditions
Whether particular words, conditional formulas, oaths sworn by divorce, or utterances in anger, jest or doubt count as divorce, and how many divorces they effect; also zihar and ila' (vows concerning the wife) and their expiation.