Someone did ask a while ago about marrying Ahle Kitab. This question is about marrying a convert. This answer can also go in the Hanafi fiqh forum.
Question:
What is the opinion of the fuqaha in the following matter: A sharīf converted a cobbler woman (non-muslim) to Islam, married her and brought her home. When his kin came to know that this sharīf has tarnished the name of a family of Qadiri Sayyids and keeps a cobbler- woman covered (in Hijâb) at home, [they were enraged].
This woman has been a widow for the past two years. All the muslims in the neighborhood and the Hindus [joined them] uncovered the woman, dragged her out in the street; they humiliated and dishonored this woman. Non-mahram men even beat her and they locked her up in the police station. My question is, does Allāh ázza wa jall and His Rasūl şallAllāhu álayhi wa sallam
permit such treatment of this newly convert woman? Are those who treated this woman in such a manner sinful or the sharif who converted her and married her?
Is it permitted by the shariáh to boycott this sharif and expel him from the community? Is there any way that the woman can become an equal (kufw)?
[Sayyid Ábd al-Karīm Qādiri Rizwi, Masjid Gharib Shah, Pahar Ganj, Delhi. Shawwāl the 9th, 1339 Hijri]
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Answer:
To convert someone to Islam is an act of great virtue that shall beget a great reward. It is also a good deed to marry her and keep her veiled in his home. To expel (such a man who does so) from the community or boycott him is gross oppression and cruelty.
Those who treated that muslim woman (as described above) have committed a grave sin. It is Haram and emphatically Haram, oppression and cruelty to do so. Whosoever has done so has transgressed the rights of men. (ĥaqq al-íbād) Allāh jall wa álā and His Rasūl şallAllāhu álayhi wa sallam will be unhappy with such people. For a pubert man, there is no condition that the woman should be an equal.
And Allāh knows best.
[Fatāwā ar-Riđawiyyah, Kitab an-Nikāĥ; Vol.11/Pg253, Lahore edition]
What is the opinion of the fuqaha in the following matter: A sharīf converted a cobbler woman (non-muslim) to Islam, married her and brought her home. When his kin came to know that this sharīf has tarnished the name of a family of Qadiri Sayyids and keeps a cobbler- woman covered (in Hijâb) at home, [they were enraged].
This woman has been a widow for the past two years. All the muslims in the neighborhood and the Hindus [joined them] uncovered the woman, dragged her out in the street; they humiliated and dishonored this woman. Non-mahram men even beat her and they locked her up in the police station. My question is, does Allāh ázza wa jall and His Rasūl şallAllāhu álayhi wa sallam
permit such treatment of this newly convert woman? Are those who treated this woman in such a manner sinful or the sharif who converted her and married her?
Is it permitted by the shariáh to boycott this sharif and expel him from the community? Is there any way that the woman can become an equal (kufw)?
[Sayyid Ábd al-Karīm Qādiri Rizwi, Masjid Gharib Shah, Pahar Ganj, Delhi. Shawwāl the 9th, 1339 Hijri]
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Answer:
To convert someone to Islam is an act of great virtue that shall beget a great reward. It is also a good deed to marry her and keep her veiled in his home. To expel (such a man who does so) from the community or boycott him is gross oppression and cruelty.
Those who treated that muslim woman (as described above) have committed a grave sin. It is Haram and emphatically Haram, oppression and cruelty to do so. Whosoever has done so has transgressed the rights of men. (ĥaqq al-íbād) Allāh jall wa álā and His Rasūl şallAllāhu álayhi wa sallam will be unhappy with such people. For a pubert man, there is no condition that the woman should be an equal.
And Allāh knows best.
[Fatāwā ar-Riđawiyyah, Kitab an-Nikāĥ; Vol.11/Pg253, Lahore edition]