Fatwa: # 17471
Category: Misc. Fiqh
Country: India
Date: 9th February 2009

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Unanswered

Question

Assalamu Alaikum
I am in a very deep problem & inshallah i hope you will be able to guide me correctly. My problem is as below
I & my brother were having girlfriends who were Kafir. Later they developed interest in Islam & we supported her with books & knowledge from Imam & Madrassa. They found Islam as correct religion & got reverted to Islam. We then got married to them a year later after they got reverted to Islam & started practicing Islam. By then they had learnt the important basics of our religion (namaz, fast, learning quaran verses & understanding hadith, etc). We had kept them under a personal teacher who is still teaching them. My parents did not knew on this till then & were opposing our relation with the girls as they were Kafir. One & half year later when tension mounted very much at our house & at girls place we disclosed the fact that we have been married & they are now muslim. My father was very upset as he believes till now that we have brought shame to the family name by doing a love marriage & he called upon the relatives of my mothers family to support him & handle the situation. He did not disclose this fact to my mother that we both brothers have got married telling that my mother will die, suffer heart attack, etc. Also did not inform the relatives on fathers side as they will laugh at him, tease & taunt him for doing laugh marriage as it is still considered a taboo in our society. We were then asked to stay alternate days at our parents home. So we used to leave our wife one night alone in the house & stay with our parents & next night we used to be with them. This practice is still going on. Now its 1.5 years since we have been married but still our mother does not knows. We have several houses so my father tells my mother in our absence that we stay in our other house close to our work place due to work pressure.My wife was pregnant & still till 8 month i was doing the same practice of alternate days. My child was born on Jan 15. My father has still not informed my mother on all this. He had come to the hospital only to see the child but did not meet my wife. He has only spoken once to my wife on phone after the baby was delivered. He has told us that he is not ready to accept our wife in his family. He brings gifts for the baby & for my wife. Now he is pressurizing us to remarry for wish of parents as we married on our wish & now we must marry to fulfill their wish so that my mother does not die or goes in any depression.If anyone does any thing wrong in the family or does not obeys our parents then he blames us for being the route cause & teaching our younger brothers.My mothers side relatives did tell my father that they will inform my mother about our marriage but he asked all of them to remain quiet. Other then my mother everyone on my mothers side know about our marriage. Our wife is not ready to allow us to remarry & are saying they will leave us & we are free to do what we can. We do not want to leave our wife nor hurt our parents. We want our mother to know the truth. We have tried several times to put an argument & ask whats wrong if the girls accept & practice islam but our mother has said she will not accept them as our wife & if we want to marry the girls then we are free to do it but she wont live with us. She will go away to our village or any other place & will discontinue all relations with us. She says that the girls would get reverted to islam only to marry us & our children will also in future run away with other religion boy/girl. Can you give a solution as to what i have to do.

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