Nikaah & Marriage Issues

Q: What is the Arabic name when a boy proposes to a woman called and engagement?

Q: Regarding intimacy between husband and wife, over time I have read in a few books and Q & A's to the effect that, permissibility being said, one should should still remember the hadith that '...Hayaa is the branch of Imaan...' Also I have read that taqwa demands that one should not be totally undressed and that at least one garment be kept on by each spouse. I would like to know what is Mufti saheb's view regarding this. Please advise as to what is better for one to do. Furthermore, I once read on UswatulMuslimah to the effect that the manner of intimacy has an impact on a child that is born of that union. 'Goodness begets goodness' was mentioned. If garments for the purpose of intimacy are worn, will this not have an impact on the piety, hayaa etc. of a child that could be born? Please provide a detail answer as this is bothering me for very long. Please make dua for the piety of my family and I.

Q: Should the dua "اللهم جنبنا الشيطان وجنب الشيطان ما رزقتنا" be read in the heart or with the tongue in the following situations?

1. The husband is lying under the blanket with underwear i.e. part of the aurah is not covered by clothes, only by the blanket?

2. The husband is lying under the blanket without any clothes at all?

3. The wife is lying below the blanket with underwear, but she has no hijab, leaving her hair uncovered outside the blanket

Also, should the following dua be read with the tongue or in the heart at the time of ejaculation: "اللهم لا تجعل للشيطان فيما رزقتنا نصيبا"? Should it be read by the husband and the wife or only by the husband?

Q: I am from India and want to ask a question regarding nikaah. There is a girl who accepted Islam and is following it secretly for almost five years without her parents knowledge. (She was Hindu and from a Hindu family). Now she want to get married with a Muslim boy but without anyone's notice and fly abroad with that guy. As we know in her situation she is a wali for herself as her complete family is Hindu. She is even worried to marry in front of any Imaam. She wants to marry first and then fly abroad. Her concern is that, can she marry that boy without a qazi.

Q: Is it bad luck to wear someone's wedding dress?

Q: Is love marriage Haraam? If one got married through a love marriage, will the marriage be valid?

Q: My fiance is a converted muslim. His father was a Hindu. On the nikah nama what name should be used in place of fathers name? My family does not want to use a Hindu name. Can we write a Muslim relatives name? Will the nikaah be valid if using a fake name? What name should we use while performing the nikah. Can the fathers name be avoided?

Q: I would like to ask you if a sister in-law shakes hands with her brother in-law and hugs him does his nikaah brake and also if the brother in-law shakes the sister in-laws hands and hugs her and stands next to her where their elbows and arms are touching? Please let me know as soon as possible.

Q: Can I marry without my parents consent. I fear that I may commit zina?

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?