• Social Matters >> Nikah (Marriage)

    Question ID: 10047Country: India

    Title: Assalaam Alaikum, My question is... Islam allows inter-marriage, by which i mean marriage among the relatives like marriage of a man's son to his siblings daughter, or you can say marriage among cusions. As science says that inter-marriage lead to various kind of disorders in the offsprings. What ulama-e-deen have to say about this. Kindly reply keeping in view the scientific aspect as it will help me in my further debates. I'll be willingly waiting for your reply.

    Question: Assalaam Alaikum, My question is... Islam allows inter-marriage, by which i mean marriage among the relatives like marriage of a man's son to his siblings daughter, or you can say marriage among cusions. As science says that inter-marriage lead to various kind of disorders in the offsprings. What ulama-e-deen have to say about this. Kindly reply keeping in view the scientific aspect as it will help me in my further debates. I'll be willingly waiting for your reply.

    Answer ID: 10047

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 48/48=M/1429)

     

    Intermarriage is lawful in Islam i.e. one can marry his (parental or maternal) cousin sisters etc provided there is no other reason of being haram like co-suckling. According to you, as per the science, intermarriage leads to disorder, what you mean by disorder.

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India