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My Husband Broke His Promise, And Got Married Again!

22 May, 2017
Q My husband has got married without my consent and told me one month later. When we got married, he took swear on Quran and said: "Allah is the witness of all that if I deceive you or get married to any other woman then I must be sent to hell without any other option of forgiveness and I may be kafir at the time of death". He asked me to take the same question, I also took same swears that I'll not marry any other man and if I deceive him all conditions are applied to me too. Now, he deceived me when I'm in his nikah; he is not accepting me and asking me to marry someone else, though I want to be with him in any condition but he is saying that his second wife will not accept me. So, he doesn't want me now and will not marry me till death. What do I do now? Should I go for a second marriage? I'll be counted guilty or I'm free of swearing? Please guide me!

Answer

As-Salaamu ‘alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,

 

SubhanAllah! When two people make a contract with one another and one person in that contract breaks the contract, that contract become null and void for the other person in the contract! If you husband swore as you say he did, and still took another wife, you should not want to be with him because he has little to no fear of breaking his oaths to Allah and the seriousness of his oaths to Allah! A woman’s—wife’s—only protection in a marriage is her husband’s taqwa (awareness of Allah watching him and fear of doing wrong and displeasing Allah).

A man is not supposed to obey his wife, so he is supposed to do right by her not because she said to but because Allah told him to, and that is the very thing that your husband is not doing!

Please double check with the scholars on this site if what I have told you is true – that you can break the oath you swore because he broke the contract first, so you no longer are obliged to keep your part of the contract. Also, contracts that are not Islamic are not binding and your contract sounds really iffy. Please ask a scholar about these finer details of fiqh!

I want to compliment you on your taqwa, may Allah increase you in good and in reward!

If you have to keep your word/contract and live a future life of celibacy, in the Quran, Allah says that, when we are traumatized, or very scared, or extremely sad, or the like, we should deal with it by saying “inna li lahi wa inna ilaihi ra jee un” (From Allah we come and to Allah we will return). Thikering this helps the believer see life in its true context, as part of the whole of it, which includes the next life too. That one short sentence references the beginning and the end of life, thereby referencing the essence of life, that life is for the next, not this one.

 

May Allah Make it easy for you.

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About Nasira S. Abdul-Aleem
Nasira S. Abdul-Aleem, an American, has a BA in English from UC Berkeley and is about to receive an MS degree in counseling psychology (Marriage and Family Therapy - MFT) from the Western Institute for Social Research. For over ten years, Nasira worked as a psychotherapist with the general public and in addiction recovery.For the last few years, she has been a life coach specializing in interpersonal relations. Nasira also consults with her many family members who studied Islam overseas and returned to America to be Imams and teachers of Islam. Muslims often ask Nasira what psychology has to do with Islam. To this, she replies that Islam is the manifestation of a correct understanding of our psychology. Therapists and life coaches help clients figure out how to traverse the path of life as a Believer, i.e., "from darkness into light", based on Islam and given that that path is an obstacle course, according to Allah.