Expert: Mohammed - 9/4/2006

Question
Assalamualaikum....

hi i am khadijah from malaysia...i would like to know about the laws of getting married with an arabian guy....

my question is..... is there any rules for arabian guy for not getting married with ousiders girls... i mean malaysian girl ? but they are only alowed to married girl from their own country.... i see this problem from only arabs country....... they use to tell that
we couldnt get married to you because you are not from our country.....

i am a muslim girl and he is also a muslim guy is there any wrong for us to fall in love and we are not allowed to married..?

and i heard that if they married with us the government of arabs willl strictly take back the citizenship...? how far its true... plz let me know.........

Answer
Hi khadijah,
There are 22 Arabic countries extended from Morocco at the west to Iraq at the east, including Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and UAE, etc…

Rules and laws are different from one country to another. But in most of Arabic countries, man and woman are allowed to marry from outside.
Some Arabic countries don’t grant the citizenship to the women’s children if she gets married to a foreign man.
The restriction are exist especially in the Arabic gulf countries (Saudi Arabic, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Oman) because the percentage of the native citizens of those countries is small compared to foreign people. For example, In United Arab Emirates, the native citizens are only 20% of the total population, so the law is too strict regarding to marriage with foreign people.
But even though, still there are many men from United Arab Emirates who had got married with foreign women.

I hope that I was helpful.

Regards
Mohammed Hammoud