5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

act. One can marry a woman with whom one has had an illegal
sex; as well, anyone else can marry her. Maternal and paternal
uncles’ or maternal and paternal aunts’ daughters and one’s
brother’s wife are not zî rahm al-mahram; in other words, these
five women are nâ-mahram to one; hence, it is harâm for one to
look at their uncovered parts which must be covered; it is harâm
for one to have halwat with them or to talk to them when their
heads and arms are uncovered. Halwat means for a man and a
nâ-mahram woman to stay alone together in a private home. It
is also harâm to make halwat with a kâfir woman (non-Muslim
woman), and with somebody else’s female slave (Jâriya).
These five women are nâ-mahram to one; consequently, it is
permissible for one to marry them. It is not harâm, yet it is
tanzîhî makrûh to marry the first four women. It is written in
Kimyâ-i-sa’âdat as follows: The eighth one of the eight
qualities considered a sunnat to be possessed by a prospective
wife is that she should not be one from among the close
relatives. In a hadîth-i-sherîf Rasûlullah (sallallâhu alaihi wa
sallam) said, “Their children will be weak and unhealthy.”
The same information is also written in the book Murshîd almutaahhelîn,
which is written in Turkish. It is not makrûh to
marry the daughters of these four women. Hadrat Alî (radiallâhu
anh) did not marry his uncle’s daughter, but he married his
uncle’s son’s daughter; therefore, it was not makrûh.
The sixth one of the seven women who are harâm to marry
due to a temporary situation is a mushrik woman. Mushrik
means someone who is a disbeliever without a Holy Book.
Communists and masons (freemasons), murtads (renegades),
Buddhists, Brahmins and atheists are mushriks. If a mushrik
becomes a Muslim, it will be permissible to marry her. When a
man or a woman wants to marry a woman or a man, he or she
should investigate thoroughly to know if the woman or the man
is a Muslim or not. Although it is jaiz for a Muslim man to marry
a woman who is a disbeliever with a Holy Book, that is, a
Christian or Jewish woman or a heretical woman, or a lâmadhhabî
woman, if they have not become mushriks, it is
tahrîmî makrûh to marry the ones who live in countries termed
dâr-ul-harb, and it is tanzîhî makrûh to marry the ones who live
in countries termed dâr-ul-islâm. It is also jâiz for a man who is
married to a Muslim woman to marry these women. It is not
permissible for a Muslim woman to marry a man who is not a
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