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Yasir Qadhi

Ask Shaykh YQ #76 - I discovered my spouse had a relationship before marriage, what should I do

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The second question that we have, it's a very difficult question.

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Subhalleh brother Ali from Vancouver.

0:11.0

He mentions that. He knows of a couple that was happily married for a few years and a few years have gone by since the marriage.

0:20.0

Then the husband discovers that his wife had some type of un-Islamic relationship with another person

0:28.2

before marriage.

0:29.2

You get the point what I'm trying to say here.

0:30.9

Now the husband is devastated and heartbroken. He doesn't know if he can

0:34.8

continue and he's asking that is the marriage valid, knowing that she had a

0:40.1

previous relationship and then the Nikahoos performed and now what advice you know would give him. A rusalna mink kibdika I'll a rejalan no he

0:56.8

I'll a hymn fas alu

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al-a la dikirim So this is a very difficult emotional question.

1:15.0

At the same time we have to be very clear here.

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As for the validity of the Nika'ahas, as for the concept that the Nikah was correct or incorrect,

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dear brother, please don't go there at all. There is no question that the Nikahh was

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valid. Whatever sins were done at a previous point in one's life, it doesn't affect

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the validity of the Nikah. The Nikah contract has its own conditions and as long as those conditions

1:42.0

were met which inshallah they were because you were saying

1:44.0

you know you were married for many years so I'm assuming that again everything was met the

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Mahar the the witnesses everything was done there so if there was a haram relationship in the past that has nothing to do

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with the validity of the Nikaa. So please don't let Chaitan whisper to you and make

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something you know different in this regard.

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