Mahram or Non-mahram?

[HimuraHafiz]

For those of you who don't know, someone who is mahram is a person of the opposite gender that it is perfectly halal to talk to. The simple ones are your mom, your sister, your grandmother. But what about...

(I'm doing this from a guy's perspective)

Cousin?
Dad's/Mom's brother's wife?
Brother's wife?
Wife's sister?
Stepmother?
Stepsister?
Halfsister?
Girl with whom you are doing a project with?
Coworker?

I know I got a little too specific, but these are very important issues that are not easily answered.

Please correct me if I was wrong in my description of a Mahram.

[ShariQ]

Cousin = non-mahram
Dad's/Mom's brother's wife = Allahu Alim
Brother's wife = non-mahram
Wife's sister = non-mahram
Stepmother = Allahu Alim
Stepsister = Allahu Alim
Halfsister = mahram
Girl with whom you are doing a project with = non-mahram
Coworker = non-mahram

[HimuraHafiz]

Yeah, I wasn't sure about the cousin thing. Alhamdullah, I don't have that problem because most of my family is spread out around the world.

So we should not talk to our cousins because they are non-mahram? This is evident in the Fatima (RA)'s marriage to Ali (RA), whom were first cousins, right?

[Mona]

Ummm are you sure about the stepmother and stepsister?

3 – One’s stepdaughter (a wife’s daughter by a previous husband). The stepdaughter is not a mahram unless the man has consummated the marriage with her mother. If he simply made a marriage contract with her but did not consummate the marriage, then she is not a mahram, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“your stepdaughters under your guardianship, born of your wives to whom you have gone in — but there is no sin on you if you have not gone in them”

[al-Nisa’ 4:23 – interpretation of the meaning]


I think the dads mothers brother's wife is married into the family and I don't think you are her muhram. Allahu 3alam.

1 – Women married by one’s father (i.e., father’s wife and also grandfathers’ wives). Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“And marry not women whom your fathers married”

[al-Nisa’ 4:22]




I can't take hijab off infront of my Aunt's husband...he is not my muhram.

[Mona]

Originally Posted by HimuraHafiz

Yeah, I wasn't sure about the cousin thing. Alhamdullah, I don't have that problem because most of my family is spread out around the world.

So we should not talk to our cousins because they are non-mahram? This is evident in the Fatima (RA)'s marriage to Ali (RA), whom were first cousins, right?

You should always talk to your cousins and keep in touch with them, this is part of Silatul Raham. keeping family ties in islam is very important.

Don't you talk to kaffirs everyday because of work who don't wear hijab? Why can't your cuzin be spoken to?

[SisterBasmah]

what does it mean to "consummate" the marriage?

[HimuraHafiz]

Originally Posted by Mona

You should always talk to your cousins and keep in touch with them, this is part of Silatul Raham. keeping family ties in islam is very important.

Don't you talk to kaffirs everyday because of work who don't wear hijab? Why can't your cuzin be spoken to?

Yeah I do talk to kuffar every day who don't wear hijab. But my casual once in a lifetime, few words, conversation with them is much different then the relationship one would have with their cousins.

[sabirah]

Originally Posted by SisterBasmah

what does it mean to "consummate" the marriage?

technically consumation of hte marriage is when a husband and wife are in total n complete privacy, regardless of wat happens b/w them, if they are alone, the marriage has been consummated (islamically)

[SisterBasmah]

Originally Posted by sabirah

technically consumation of hte marriage is when a husband and wife are in total n complete privacy, regardless of wat happens b/w them, if they are alone, the marriage has been consummated (islamically)

........... ok

[ShariQ]

Originally Posted by Mona

You should always talk to your cousins and keep in touch with them, this is part of Silatul Raham. keeping family ties in islam is very important.

Don't you talk to kaffirs everyday because of work who don't wear hijab? Why can't your cuzin be spoken to?

Daleel please.