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Brother Hassan from New York and also sister, I think Mahanaz from California.

I got actually four emails in the last weeks about the same issue I'm going to summarize it and it's a very sensitive topic.

The emails all say the same scenario. A female relative has decided to marry a person of another faith.

And now the question arises what is to be done.

She's adult, she's free to do whatever she wants, you know, politically and technically.

And in one case, the uncle, in the other case, a cousin,

in the other case, a family friend is asking,

should we attend the ceremony and what do we do afterwards and what is the verdict on a Muslim

a Muslim a Muslim having a nika with a kitabi or even a non kitabi even somebody who's agnostic or

atheist so this is the question is the wedding permissible should we attend the

wedding what is to be done afterwards. I'm Before I jump into the answer to this question, I do need to take a bit of a step back and address a segment of people who find the entire question problematic and they say why does it bother you if

somebody has chosen their life partner they're in love with them they want to

be happy together why do you have to interfere?

And in particular, many people that are living in a liberal paradigm,

they find it problematic that we problematize somebody else's marriage.

You understand the point here, right?

If they're getting married, that's their happiness, let them do it.

And we need to be very frank here.

Fact of the matter is somebody who finds our problematizing

problematic right they're coming from a very different paradigm and I

in sha all the plan to give lectures about this as well, but their paradigm is essentially a modern

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