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Inter-Racial Marriage In Islam Part 1 of 2
In a recent Islamic conference in Michigan, I received two questions relating to interracial marriage during the question and answer section. This topic, which I have counseled numerous persons about, seems to be a growing option for American Muslims and undoubtedly a concern for many as well. The issues surrounding interracial marriages are indeed complex. Many Muslims who immigrated to the West have a hard time reconciling the idea of such potential unions which are perceived to threaten the possibility of their grandchildren losing their cultures and concerns over possible sons and daughters in laws and their families being unfamiliar and even disrespectful about their norms and mores. For African American Muslim women, who perhaps face the most daunting task out of any group of Muslim women in finding mates due to a shortage of single suitable African American Muslim men, compounded by the aversion to blackness that too many non-Black Muslims hold relating to standards of beauty, the pool of marriageable Muslims becomes even more decreased when African American Muslim men marry non-African American Muslim women or marry Christian women. Thus, the concerns that some Muslims hold relating to interracial marriages inside of our community should not all be chalked up as based in racial animus.

There is nothing wrong with Muslims looking for mates firstly within their own ethnic groups. Having preferences in and of themselves also do not make those holding them to be racists, though standards of beauty or suitability can be implicitly biased, shaped by broader historical and societal factors. Parents having such preferences in and of themselves are also not clear signs of ethnic bigotry. The Prophet (prayers and peace be upon him and his family) stated, “A woman can be married for four [reasons]: Her wealth, her family status, her beauty and her deen, so select deen [as most important] that you may be blessed.” An-Nawawi stated in his commentary on this tradition that the Prophet ﷺ was speaking to the people based upon the customs of what they looked for relating to marriage.1 Based upon these, it is not blameworthy to be inclined to marry someone firstly within one’s culture or for parents to have that desire for their children to seek to marry based upon families known to them which usually has some sort of village or ethnic connection. The problem comes when deen is relegated to culture, or if people hold animosity or try to block others from getting married simply because of ethnic or cultural differences. Thankfully, the Prophetic tradition sheds light on this subject for us.

In the Prophetic era, we can firstly look to the personal example of the Prophet ﷺ in how he dealt with this issue. His wife Safiyah bint Ak
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