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1) Forced marriages in Islam are haram. The evidence from hadeeth is this:
'Aishah reported that a girl came to her and said, "My father married me to his brother’s son in order to raise his social standing, and I did not want this marriage [I was forced into it].” 'Aishah said, “Sit here until the Prophet (
) comes. The Messenger of Allah (
) came and she told him about the girl. The Prophet (
) sent for her father, then he gave the girl the choice of what to do. She said, "O Messenger of Allah, I have accepted what my father did, but I wanted to prove something to other women.” (Reported by al-Nisaa’i, 3217).
This hadeeth basically proves that the woman marrying has to agree to marry a man willingly and that willingness to marry is a condition for the marriage to be valid. Forced marriages are not valid, just like forced divorces are not valid.
2) To marry with the intention of divorce, i.e. temporary marriage, to marry for a specific time period is also an invalid marriage. When one enters into a marriage contract he/she enters permanently unless there is a female instigated separation (khula) or a divorce by the male (talaaq).
3) If, and I said
if, the marriage was done properly and correctly and it is Islamically legal and binding, then you must serve the other person according to the way the Islamic Law dictates.
4) I would advise you to settle this in the Islamic courts and not take it in your own hands. Yes, what the Messenger
has said holds more weight than any other practice or custom that one is expected to follow, but it is a better and a more wiser option to get other's involved before you marry someone properly. If you intend to remarry then you do not want your other marriage (that's if you have someone else in mind) to be affected by the current marriage which everyone thinks to be valid.
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