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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books All Solutions are with the Prophet’s Progeny Temporary marriage and its benefits Unfortunately, Muslims do not look at this marriage except by the eye of criticism. They do not discuss except its negative points, which are very little, and do not see its positive points which are very many. In fact, everything has negative and positive points.

As this kind of marriage was not practiced since the time of Umar ibn al-Khattab, who prohibited it with no any legal cause, so people consider it as adultery and they look at it disgustingly. This does not mean that it is disgusting, but because people have neither known nor practiced it. It is like the offering of two prayers at one time, or like the khums , or wiping the feet in wudhu’ .

Despite that they have been available in the Holy Qur'an and despite that the Prophet (S) has practiced and ordered Muslims to practice them, most of people are ignorant of them. Muslims find them strange for nothing, but just because they are not familiar with them in their daily life. You see that they do not find adultery as strange as they find temporary marriage strange! A young woman often tried to incite some young man to commit adultery with her.

When he refused and suggested that they should get married in temporary marriage, she refused and said that she did not know this kind of marriage. If you argue about the matter of temporary marriage with Sunni scholars and prove its legality with irrefutable proofs from al-Bukhari and Muslim and when they are embarrassed before the evidences, they say that this marriage is a kind of humiliation to woman.

When you prove to them the opposite, they begin talking nonsense and say: will you marry me your sister or daughter in temporary marriage? They speak with the mentality of domination over woman. They often say that woman cannot marry herself (to someone by her will) and that her marriage is in the hand of her guardian. They think that woman is like a cow that is sold and bought, and that she has no right to choose her husband.

Indeed, this is the very humiliation to woman and not her temporary marriage. Temporary marriage is a mercy from Allah for woman and it is not a kind of humiliation. She has the full right to refuse temporary marriage and no one can ever force her to accept it.