Kinds of Marriage Legal Consequences of Marriages

CONCEPT OF IRREGULAR MARRIAGE 

 

         Classification of marriages:

 

         A Marriage according to Mohammadan law may be either: 

 

  1. 'Valid (Sahih)
  2. 2) Void (batil)

  (3) Irregular (Fasid)

 

       Though in Mohd. Law the concept o  marriage in purely 

 

contract. Even some legal prohibition have been prescribed for 

 

the valid Nikah by Kooran or sunnat those prohibitions o  four 

 

kinds-Absolute, relative, directory and prohibitory. I  any 

 

marriage between two Muslim in violation o  absolute and 

 

prohibited prohibition the marriage is Batil and i  there is 

 

violation o  relative and directory prohibition the marriage is fasid 

 

i.e. irregular and i  all these prohibition are avoided and marriage 

 

is contracted, the marriage is sahih i.e. let us discuss the concept 

 

o  Fasid marriage in Muslim law.

 

        Irregular Marriage (fasid):

 

        A union between a man and a woman may be either lawful 

 

or unlawful. Unlawfulness may be either absolute or relative. I  

 

the unlawfulness is absolute we have a void (batil) marriage. I  it 

 

is relative, we have an irregular (fasid) marriage a marriage 

 

contracted by parties su         ering from relative, prohibitory or 

 

directory incapacity is irregular both according to Bailie and 

 

Ameer Ali.

 

        Relative in capacity:

 

        Relative incapacity springs from cases which render the 

  1. marriage invalid only so long as the cause which creates the bar

Principles of Muhammadan Law. Page 399 to 403

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