1. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims
  2. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

10 Questions

Is a person born to non-believers and later converting to Shia Islam considered illegitimate if their parents did not have a formal marriage due to the societal norms in their community?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

The Hadeeth from Imam Jafar Al-Sadiq (AS) says: Every community who differentiate between marriage and fornication, their marriage is lawful. كل قوم يعرفون النكاح من السفاح فنكاحهم جائز . (Al-Tahtheeb; 7:475).

The marriage between non Muslim parents according to their society is valid and you are not an illegitimate.

Wassalam.
Does an individual, whether a child or an adult, who is born out of wedlock to non-Muslim parents, have the right to follow the Shia faith?
Amina Inloes

Yes, they can follow Shi'a Islam regardless of their parentage, ancestral religion, or age. 
What are the issues to be considered, such as around inheritance or any other Islamic aspect, when raising an illegitimate child that is not yours? And how can these challenges be overcome?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Raising a child in need who is not your child is a great act of reward and it is a way to Paradise if it is done according to the teachings of Islam. As the child is not your child, there is no inheritance between you and the child, although you are free to give him in your will up to one third of what you leave, and you can gift him during your life whatever you like to gift him.

When the child becomes Baaligh, Hijab is must.

Wassalam.
I have a daughter from my previous marriage who never accepted Islam and she now has an illegitimate child. As a practicing Muslim how am I supposed to act towards this child?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

You need to keep in touch with her and treat her nicely being a practicing Muslim so that she will see the great manners of Islam. You should try to invite her to Islam as and when you find a suitable chance. Her being non Muslim does not mean always that she denied Islam deliberately. She might had been a victim of ignorance or misleading propaganda.

You should do your best to give the practical evidence that Islam is the best religion.
Wassalam.