WHAT HAPPENS TO A MARRIAGE IF ONE OF THE COUPLE CONVERTS TO ISLAM?

[Subduction Zone]

If one is only looking to please the society or the people then it might make a difference, but if one is interested in pleasing their Lord then it makes no difference whatsoever. E.g. a "fake imam" can pop out of anywhere and declare that such and such a gay couple is Islamically married, but that so-called marriage is not valid and it will never be — not even if the whole world believed it was.

That would be your opinion. And the Quran may be very anti-homosexual, but if it is that is just bad for the Quran. I thought that Islam was supposed to be a religion of peace. Of one where one loves one fellow man.

 

[JerusalemBull]

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[RestlessSoul]

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Do you love your spouse? If you do, don’t you think God will look kindly on your union?

 

[MayPeaceBeUpOnYou]

I don’t know. One time, I read about the experience of a woman who was drawn to Islam, came to believe in it, and was ready to take šahādah. When it was time, she and her husband visited a mosque for her formal conversion. Wearing a headscarf and ready to recite her testimony in Arabic, she was told that she cannot convert. If she converted, she would have been the wife of an unbeliever, which would have been a sin in her case. I imagine that if she did convert, there would have been a lot of pressure on her husband to convert.

Which country did this happen?

I never heard of shahada being refused for that reason. I am brought in a Islamic household and from I what I know is that a declaration of faith is always accepted. Obviously the person that takes the shadadah is recommended to investigate on matters of importance before making the step.

 

[mangalavara]

Which country did this happen?

I don't know what country it happened in, but the woman who wrote about her experience online sounded very Western judging by her phraseology. As I read it, which was long ago, I had the impression that she was American.

I never heard of shahada being refused for that reason. I am brought in a Islamic household and from I what I know is that a declaration of faith is always accepted. Obviously the person that takes the shadadah is recommended to investigate on matters of importance before making the step.

As someone who has been to a few mosques and learned much about Sunni Islam, I too have never heard of shahada being refused for that reason except for in that one story. I remember there was a woman who converted and then her husband did the same later on. It might have been days, weeks, or months.