Saturday, March 29, 2014

Dought & clear, - Can she askher husband touse a condom to protect herself if he marries another wife?

In this day and age a lot of people step out of there marriage and
make kids that r not there husband and bring back S.T.Ds so can I ask
my husband to use condoms with me to protect myself if he take on a
second wife.
Praise be to Allaah.
Firstly:
Zina is a major sin, great calamity and the worst of conduct, and its
consequences in this world, in the Hereafter and in the grave are
severe.
Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"Made lawful to you this day are At-Tayyibaat [all kinds of Halaal
(lawful) foods, which Allaah has made lawful (meat of slaughtered
eatable animals, milk products, fats, vegetables and fruits)]. The
food (slaughtered cattle, eatable animals) of the people of the
Scripture (Jews and Christians) is lawful to you and yours is lawful
to them. (Lawful to you in marriage) are chaste women from the
believers and chaste women from those who were given the Scripture
(Jews and Christians) before your time when you have given their due
Mahr (bridal-money given by the husband to his wife at the time of
marriage), desiring chastity (i.e. taking them in legal wedlock) not
committing illegal sexual intercourse, nor taking them as girlfriends.
And whosoever disbelieves in Faith, [i.e. in the Oneness of Allaah and
in all the other Articles of Faith i.e. His (Allaah's) Angels, His
Holy Books, His Messengers, the Day of Resurrection and Al-Qadar
(Divine Preordainments)], then fruitless is his work; and in the
Hereafter he will be among the losers"
[al-Maa'idah 5:5].
Ibn Katheer (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
Just as it is stipulated that women be chaste -- which means
refraining from zina -- it is also stipulated for men; a man should
also be chaste. Hence Allah says"not committing illegal sexual
intercourse", referring to adulterers and fornicators who do not
refrain from committing any sin and do not control themselves. "nor
taking them as girlfriends" means: limiting himself to one woman or
mistress. End quote.
Tafseer Ibn Katheer, 3/43
Shaykh al-Islam [Ibn Taymiyah] (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
If a woman's husband commits zina with another woman, and does not
distinguish between halaal and haraam, his intimacy with that woman is
the same as the intimacy of the zaani with a woman with whom he is
committing zina, even if no one else is intimate with her, because one
of the forms of zina is taking a girlfriend or mistress.
End quote.Majmoo' al-Fataawa, 32/145
Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked:
A woman saw her husband committing zina -- Allah forbid. What should she do?
He replied:
She should advise him, especially if that was the first time and she
has children from him. But if he persists in doing that then she
should seek an annulment of the marriage. However, in general, she
should weigh up the pros and cons and decide on that basis. End quote.
Thamaraat al-Tadween min Masaa'il Ibn 'Uthaymeen, p. 112
See also the answer to question no. 115107
Secondly:
The wife does not have the right to ask her husband to use condoms
during marital relations, unless there is a reason for doing that. The
fact that he has married another woman in a legitimate shar'i marriage
does not make it permissible for her to do that, unless it is clear
that the husband himself has a disease, such as AIDS and the like,
which could be transmitted to her through sex, or it becomes clear
that the other wife has a disease of this type, or the husband was in
a haraam relationship outside of marriage. In that case she has the
right to ask him to use condoms, so as to ward off the harm that is
thought to exist in him, until it becomes clear that he is free of
that. If it becomes clear that he is healthy and there is no obvious
source of danger of transmitting disease through him, then she no
longer has the right to ask him to do that. If it becomes clear that
he does have a disease which could harm her or be transmitted to her,
then she has the right to ask him to carry on using it; indeed, in
that case she has the right to ask him to annul the marriage, if his
sickness poses a danger to her and it is something that it is
difficult to treat or avoid, such as AIDS and the like.
See:al-Ahkaam al-Shara'iyyah al-Muta'alliqah bi Marda al-AIDS, by Dr.
'Umar Sulaymaan al-Ashqar, inDiraasaat Fiqhiyyah fi Qadaaya
Tibbiyyah(1/25 ff).
And Allah knows best.

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