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Married without consent of wali, is my marriage valid?

I was married in May 2011 with my husband. We did our nikah in a masjid with 2 male witness and the imam. We did not get the consent of my father or wali..

Had a secret nikah, now his family won’t accept me

A couple of months ago, me and my partner have done a secret NIKAH. But now his parents are not agreeing, what do I do? Because Islamically I am his wife now. I really love him, he wants to divorce me, because the family won’t accept me because I am not Educated.

I cheated on my husband but didn’t tell him until a year later

I was in a relationship with a boy at the age of 17 and it went along for about 3 years until we decided to get married without telling our parents. The first 6 months of our relationship I had a problem of not being fully committed to him and I cheated by kissing 5 other guys during that time.

I want to get married but my parents think it’s too early for me. Please help me.

I really want to have someone in my life, a real muslimah that fears Allah and is a practicing muslim and serious about her deen. Im not seeing anyone or doing anything illegal that is out of the boundaries set by Allah. The problem is that my parents think it’s to early for me to get married, however they have agreed to trying to find me a suitable wife, but sometimes I just feel that I am burdening them with this request and that they find it hard to happen and a bit annoying. I have stopped asking my parents over this issue and I have totally left it to Allah and his will, and told myself that Whenever Allah wants,it will surely happen.

My fiancée is not muslim, who can be the walis?

I want to get married before ramadhan but the lady that i want to marry she is not a muslim,but this is not the matter, the problem is that lady can not present her father or brother as witnesses …

Marriage cancelled on wedding day after father changed his mind

My father on numerous ocassions gave me his permission to marry. We set up the wedding date for July 2, 2011. On the day of my wedding my father told me that he no longer gave me permission to get married..

Could someone advise me regarding my daughter’s choice of boy for marriage?

He was very short and skinny whereas my daughter is very tall and healthy. It would look very odd, to which she laughed. May Allah forgive me; This guy said that he doesn’t need my permission and he will go ahead with his family and marry my daughter.

How to get Married in Islam without brother, father or uncle

Is that true if you are a non muslim girl wanting to marry a muslim man, you do not need anyone to go with you to the Mosque to get married? I am a Muslim girl and I am with a Muslim man. My parents dont agree so we live together. No one will marry us without a brother, father, or uncle..

Is my dad qualified to be my wali?

As a father my dad is a nice man .He raised me well and send me to religious school .

But the thing is , he works in a bar and earns money out of serving alcohol . My dad also rarely prays during his youth , only now he starts to pray but there are some gabs . He does fasts . But I can say that his religious knowledge is very shallow .

Father not agreeing to my choice of guy for marriage without any valid reasons

I have been friends with a guy for 4 years and want to marry him but my father is not agreeing to this marriage without any valid reason. He is a practising Muslim and I have done Istakhara which gave me good feelings but I can’t get married to him because I don’t have permission from my father (Wali). My mother is happy with my choice but I need my fathers approval as he is my Wali, to have a valid Nikkah/marriage.