.The Crescent of the Month of Shawwal 1439 has been Sighted at Thursday Night. Eid ul-Fitr will be Friday, June 15th, 2018. May Allah Accepts the Deeds of all Believers.

.The Crescent of the Month of Shawwal 1439 has been Sighted at Thursday Night. Eid ul-Fitr will be Friday, June 15th, 2018. May Allah Accepts the Deeds of all Believers.
2018/06/15

The crescent of the month of Shawwal 1439 has been sighted at Thursday Night. Eid ul-Fitr will be Friday, June 15th, 2018.

.May Allah accepts the deeds of all believers.

Day Questions

Do I need the approval of the witnesses to hear the divorce formula? Can I just say it in front of them, or must they agree to be witnesses for it?

It is not required to seek the approval of the witnesses.

Can a woman stipulate in a temporary marriage that after this ends he will only marry her in a permanent marriage, not anybody else? Will he remain bound by this after the temporary marriage ends?

Yes, it is permissible to stipulate such a condition, and he will be bound to it.

Seeing that the significance behind the iddah period is so that the father can be identified adequately if the woman becomes pregnant, and contraception almost eliminates the chances of pregnancy, is there any need of the iddah period when using contraception?

The reason behind the waiting period is not necessarily identifying the father if the woman is pregnant. If this was the reason, then it would have been sufficient for Almighty Allah the Divine Legislator to consider one menstrual cycle as a waiting period and not any longer duration. Almighty Allah knows the actual reason behind such legislation. Therefore, the iddah must be observed even if contraception was used.

I am an Ithna-Ashari Shia. I intend to marry a Sunni girl. The way adopted for marriage here is: The bride is asked by the marriage reciter directly or indirectly if she accepts the named groom as her husband with the specified amount of dower. It is repeated thrice and if she accepts it, the groom is asked in the same way by the marriage reciter. This process takes place in the native language. My question is: Is this marriage contract valid according to us?

Such a way of marriage is an indication of the approval of each party to marrying one another, and it is not a marriage contract between them. The marriage contract must be between the two parties directly, or indirectly via their representatives, consisting of an offer and then an acceptance; for example, the bride says: "I marry myself to you on a dower of so-and-so" or her representative says: "I marry my client to you on a dower of so-and-so", then the groom accepts by saying "I accept," or his representative will say that he accepts.This can be in any language.

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