The Pregnant Bride

The Islamic marriage is one of the simplest form of marriage around. Between four and five people need be present in a Nikaah! And Islam encourages us to spend according to our means. It is our culture, family and social constraints that made marriage expensive these days! And when marriage becomes costly fornication becomes cheap!

As Islam forbids fornication and getting married keeps getting harder and harder, more youths pass away their time in one form of dating or the other. And it sometimes happen that pregnancy occurs as a result of such dating.

It's either the pregnancy is aborted or kept. A lot of ridicule comes with the latter option when we still had a little shame. Nowadays, ladies get pregnant for rich/famous men just to hook them down and secure their future.

A Pregnant bride is not to be joined together in Islam. That is, if we want to practice Islam as it ought to be practiced.The culture of waiting till the bride gets pregnant is against Islam and should be shunned.

The marriage contract would be void if it was made without fulfilling its necessary conditions. One of these conditions is the readiness of the womb. This means that the woman whom is to get married must have her womb unoccupied. For example, a man may not marry a woman who is pregnant. He may not marry a woman who was divorced until she is out of her idd’ah (a period where a widow or a divorced woman may not marry). Also a man may not marry a woman he has been having intercourse with until they both repent and she gets her monthly period. This is a sign that her womb is clean. The Prophet forbade Muslims to have intercourse with female slaves they bought recently until they are certain that their wombs are clear from any pregnancy. Waiting for the monthly period does this.

For those who did the marriage contract with pregnancy, the marriage contract must be renewed. This is not a difficult thing to do. The first baby is not Islamicly your child, as he was not created in his mother’s womb through a valid marriage contract. Some scholars say he is not to be called after you as he is born out of adultery. He is to be called after his mother’s family. He is not to inherit you and you are not to inherit him. As for the remaining children, they are yours and they carry your name. Other scholars, such as Ibn Taymiyah and Ibn AlQayyim say that if the woman is not married at the time of committing adultery, then the adulteress father may give his name to this child and that he may be treated as his child. In your case, this last opinion may be the most suitable for you and your family. Yet you must renew your marriage contract.

Lastly Muslims are adviced to shun joining pregnant brides as this is against the sanctity of Nikaah! The womb should be free as at the time of Nikaah!

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