Nikaah & Marriage Issues

Equality between wives

Q: My friend offered for me to be his second wife. Before agreeing, I would like to know about the rights of a second wife. How does it differ from the rights of the first wife? He told me that he will not live with me and have more children with me because he already has three children. I'm very young and I also want to build a full-fledged family by have children and that my husband could be with me and support me. He lives very far from me, and if we make nikah, it will not change anything. He will still live with his first wife and does not want to have more children.

So I wanted to ask you, what is the difference between the rights of the second wife from the first wife? Can he live far from me and see me only 1-2 times a week for only 1-2 hours, is it correct?

Husband expecting the wife to work

Q: My husband believes that because I’m from Europe, not an Arab and a Muslim convert I should be working. We moved to Europe recently from the Middle East and my husband told me “survive by yourself”, meaning he would not pay any longer for my extras like clothes, cosmetics, books, etc. It hurt me deeply and since then I never asked him for anything. He said sorry but after that I’m not able to accept any money from him and I refused anything he wishes to buy for me. I answer by “God bless you for offering but no thank you”. I really feel terrible to accept anything from him and at the same time I do not work which makes me feel sad.

Father getting his non-baaligh daughter married

Q: From what I have read on the internet, a father can force his daughter, if she is prepubescent, to marry someone against her consent so long as it serves a clear interest for her. This deeply disturbs me. Just because it serves an interest for her, this absolutely does not mean that she will want to be married of if she is ready for it. If she is forced to be married to someone she never wanted to be married to, then she will forever live her life being extremely depressed, resentful, and ungrateful regardless of serving an interest. This is common sense. Is there any way she can get out of a marriage she never wanted to be in?

Fantasizing about the opposite gender

Q:  

1. I am confused about the types of zina. I am aware that looking at a male, whether it's a picture or physically, is considered as zina. Also, fantasizing about a male is zina. But, is fantasizing about an imaginary male also a zina?

2. When people read romance novels, they get aroused, and eventually, discharge. Is wudhu or ghusl necessary?

Forcing a boy to get married

Q: I have an important question which I would like to ask on behalf of a friend of mine. I shall explain the whole situation and would like some Islamic advice on the matter.

Basically one my friends family have taken him to Pakistan to get married to one of his relatives there, at the time of his travel he was unaware of this. My friend likes somebody else who he would like to marry but due to his family pressure and everything he has unwillingly got engaged to his relative from Pakistan although his heart is still with the girl in UK whom he loves and wanted to wife. The girl and him have mutual feelings and still want to be together, he is not willing to forget this girl and claims he still wants to be with her, but his family have trapped him into this wedding which he is not happy with. I would just like to know on his behalf whether this marriage which was forced upon him is considered valid in Islam, because a few islamic websites I have checked on have said a marriage which is forced or not the happiness of an individual it is not valid in Islam's and Allah's eyes, is this true?

Also would it be appropriate for my friend and the girl he loves to still stay in contact regardless of this marriage which has been conducted without his happiness? What would be the best Islamic way to tackle such a situation?