Q: My father and my mother has been divorced and I live with my mother. My father lives far from us and does not want to have any contact with me. I want to be in contact with him but he does not want to. I am getting married soon so can I just take permission from him over the phone or is his presence necessary at the time of nikkah?
Q: There is a Syed family who adopted a son whose parents are non-Muslims. The adopted son is a good practicing Muslim and he has good character as well. The family wants to marry him with a Syed zadi. Is it possible or not?
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?
Q: Can a Pakistani woman who was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and can speak Arabic fluently marry a religious Saudi who is ready to marry the Pakistani woman?
Q: Is it permissible for a wahabi girl to marry a sunni boy. I have recieved a proposal from a sunni boy and I'm deeply interested in this person. However is it permissble in Islam to marry a sunni whilst I'm a wahabi?
Q: I was born in a Hindu family and later reverted to Islam. My family had broken all relation with me after knowing it. So I live alone and work in a company. I have received marriage proposal from a Muslim man whom I know for few years. I want to marry him but as I know, a wali is required for a woman to marry. Kindly inform me how to get married in this situation. Do I need to inform my family that I am getting married. They are already very angry after I accepted Islam. I fear that they would harm me.
Q: Can you reject a proposal based on the fact that a boy lives far away from your hometown? And also based on the fact that your partners are unhappy with this distance?
Q: I am a new Muslim. I am currently married to a Christian and seeking a divorce. After divorce and iddah time is final, I desire to marry a Muslim man. It is the same person that helped lead me to Islam and helped me with my Shahaadah.
The problem is that I am a Caucasian American and he is an Arab Egyptian. His parents do not accept me because I am from a different culture. I have been married before and I am not Muslim by birth. His parents want him to marry a virgin from his culture. Me and him tried not to, but we have fallen in love and want to marry. He is 25 and I am 26. In order to keep his parents desires for him, I am willing to accept a polygamous marriage. But they still don't approve. He is now asking me to marry him without his parents knowing, and tell them after the marriage. I want to marry him and he wants to marry me, but I do not want to start off a marriage with haraam ways. I want my marriage to be halal. Can you give me sound advice to this situation?
Q: Is it possible for a person to marry with a person of a different sect (maslak). Is it right to do so or should it be avoided?
Q: I am very confused about the position of Arabs over other races in Islam. The prophet himself said that an Arab is not better than a non-Arab, yet I also have heard that Arabs, as a whole, have been given a superiority over other races. How do we reconcile these two views? Could you explain exactly in what way Arabs are considered superior?
Does this superiority also exist with regards to religion - for example if two people are equally religious and one is Arab and one is non-Arab, is the one that is Arab more excellent in religion or more pious or more beloved to Allah?
Lastly, are Arab women not considered compatible with a non-Arab men in most scholars' opinions, yet all non-Arabs are considered compatible with each other. So, from what I understand this compatibility issue is not about cultural differences, because then non-Arabs would not be compatible with other non-Arabs of different races/cultures. So, what is the reason for the incompatibility between an Arab woman and non-Arab man? What is the evidence for this?