Various masaail of Nikaah

Q: Today many Asian parents in the west are only willing to get their children married after university education and finding a job by which time they are 25 or 26 years of age or older. The argument is that they need to be settled financially before marriage. In the interim however, it is difficult to envisage that in the environment we live in that these children manage to control their gaze, curb their desires and stay away from some of relationship with the opposite sex? A few teenage children have summoned the courage in our community to tell their parents that they need to get married but the parents argue that they need to finish their studies, get a good job and only then they will financially be able to support a wife. It is difficult to understand how a father who was once young and felt the urge to satisfy his desires now no longer understands or refuses to accede to the requests of his teenage son to get married.

1. What is the Shar'i ruling in such a situation?

2. Is it correct for parents to refuse marriage of their child until studies are finished, particularly in western countries where there is a distinctive threat of involvement in some form of zina?

3. Can the a teenage boy, who fears falling in to sin, yet his parents flatly refuse/delay him get him married, find his own wife and have his nikah conducted with witnesses?

Q: Can parents forcefully marry you to someone? Do they have the right? If no then what can we do to stop them for doing this. Also is there any wazeefa to soften their hearts and make them understand that we don't like the particular guy they like for us?

Q: Is it permissible for females to attend a nikaah at a mosque that has female facilities?

Q: When will it be waajib for a person to get married? Similarly, when will it be Sunnah for a person to get married?

Q: After marriage if anybody comes to know that his child is not legitimate, is there any way to make it valid or legitimate?

Q: I'm hoping you can shed some light on this matter, nonetheless I have a daughter out of wedlock. Her father is Christian. I withheld visitation because I know I've committed a major sin. I've repented and I'm still doing it, anyway is it permissible for him to see and be an active role in her life? I don't know if there's anything I can do because he took me to childrens court. So she goes to him every Sunday. He feeds her food out of their house and they are pork eaters even though I send her lunch and snacks with. He even gives her food out of other Christian peoples house. I once saw his cousin's husband kissing her on her mouth. Any advice will be appreciated.

Q: Singing is haraam but my husband sings about me. Says good things about me when he's singing. But when he is singing he sings in a naat tune or nazam tune. He just makes up words. He doesn't copy any singer. Is that okay or still haraam?

Q: I have been recently engaged. Is it permissible in Islam to talk on the phone before marriage?

Q: I was told that if you and your spouse are in a non-Muslim /Dar ul Harb country and you go to Dar ul Islam (or vice versa) for a visit, your Nikaah is terminated. Is this true? Would it apply e.g. if the husband goes on vacation to Egypt, leaving his wife behind in South Africa for a few weeks?

Q:

1. Can a Muslim rape his slave and if he rapes his slave is there a punishment?

2. Can a husband rape his wife and if he rapes his wife is there a punishment?