Muta Marriage

What is the ruling on Mut’a Marriages?

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Brother, let me ask you a question. If someone comes and asks to marry your daughter or sister for a week only and says I will also pay the dowry! How would you feel about that? Wouldn’t it sound to you like someone wanting to pay money to perform Zina? Ask any Shi’a the same question and see how they react! One more thing that you have to know about them is that their Scholars get to have the leisure to have Muta’a marriage with any girl, whereas it is not permissible for someone to marry their female siblings or daughters! What kind of justice is this?

Let me tell you more about this kind of marriage from the Sunnah of the prophet PBUH: Mut’ah marriage means that a man marries a woman – either Muslim or from the people of the Book – and specifies how long the marriage will last, for example five days, or two months, or half a year, or many years. The beginning and end of the marriage are specified, and he pays her a small mahr (dowry), and after the specified time is over, the woman exits the marriage. This kind of marriage was permitted during the year of the Conquest of Makkah for three days, then it was disallowed and prohibited. This was reported by Imam Muslim in the hadith narrated by Arrabi’i Ibnou Sabra that he heard his father say that the prophet PBUH has prohibited the Muta’a marriage after the conquest of Makkah until the day of resurrection. The reason why it was permitted in the begining was because at that time there were so many new Muslims and there was the fear that they might become apostates, because they had been used to committing zinaa during the Jaahiliyyah.

Ali Ibnou Abi Taleb also narrated in the hadith reported by Attirmithi that the prophet PBUH prohibited the Muta’a marriage.

Iyass Ibnou Salama said that his father relates that the prophet PBUH permitted the Mutta’a marriage for three days and then prohibited it (reported by Muslim)

The wife is the one with whom one stays on a long-term basis, as Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “… and live with them honourably …” [al-Nisaa’ 4:19], but in the case of mut’ah a man does not live with the woman for long.

The wife is the one who inherits from the husband, or from whom the husband inherits, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“In that which your wives leave, your share is a half if they have no child…” [al-Nisaa’ 4:12]. But the woman in a mut’ah marriage does not inherit, because she is not a wife, since she spends such a short time with the man.

Thus, Mut’ah marriage is considered to be zinaa even if both parties consent to it, and even if it lasts for a long time, and even if the man pays the woman a mahr.

With regards to your second question, if I understand it correctly, there is nothing in the Sunnah that I know of that says that someone’s Iman would be affected if he or she mentions the name of Khenzeer ! It doesn’t even seem logical ! How about when you’re reading the Quran and pass by the ayah that talks about the jews identifying them as Khanazeer, would you skip the ayah?!!

Wallahu A’lam

Sh. Riad Ouarzazi