Men allowed to marry their illegitimate daughters: Egyptian cleric

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A prominent Egyptian Salafist cleric has claimed that Islam permitted men to marry their illegitimate daughters.

Mazen Al-Sersawi says that as illegitimate daughters are not officially attributed to their fathers, they can be married to them, Mail Online reported.

He makes the claims in a video which has gone viral and he has been widely criticised for the comments.

https://youtu.be/5rj1MuKrUmk

The video was made in 2012 but has recently resurfaced online.

Al-Sersawi, who teaches at the prestigious Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, says as an illegitimate daughter does not carry her father’s name, “she is not his daughter according to Sharia. She is not officially attributed to him”.

Many have expressed their revulsion about his claims with one man tweeting “what is this madness?” and a woman simply saying “ewww”.

Earlier this year, another Egyptian cleric, Muftah Mohammad Maarouf, said in televised debate the age for marrying should be low enough for new-born babies to be married off.

He said long as “no harm” is done to the child, there is no problem in “preventing her from getting married” adding that “in Islamic Sharia, there is no set age for marriage when it comes to females”.

2 COMMENTS

  1. Before prophet Muhammad SA , prophet Esha AS,Musa AS,Nooh As received the holy book like Quran,but people manipulate in verses, Now these are the people who try to manipulate in Quran words.
    Don’t believe in them, they have their own fabricated word. You will not get a single verses in Quran that allow to marry to own adopted girl.

  2. Moreover the news paper should be punished for publishing comments of such 3rd rated man. They in the name of News taking shelter. These news paper are so hungry for news that they dont even see what are they publishing.

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