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Expert: Imam Habeeb - 11/4/2009


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I want to ask whether it is allowed in islam to have boyfriends and girl friends in islam
please give ur answer with reference to hadhits and quran

thank you
shahud

Answer
This is not allowed unless you are chaporoned with intention of marriage in the future.

4:25 If any of you have not the means wherewith to wed free believing women, they may wed believing girls from among those whom your right hands possess: And Allah hath full knowledge about your faith. Ye are one from another: Wed them with the leave of their owners, and give them their dowers, according to what is reasonable: They should be chaste, not lustful, nor taking paramours: when they are taken in wedlock, if they fall into shame, their punishment is half that for free women. This (permission) is for those among you who fear sin; but it is better for you that ye practise self-restraint. And Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.

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Being an Educator of Islamic Studies and Interfaith discussions for the past 25 years and having authored twelve books and numerous articles on Islam - I think I can answer questions on Islam and other religions and issues of the Hanafi jurisprudence as well as general questions on Quran and Sharia. Love, sex and marital problems are some such topics! This is an independent volunteering service and not under any organizational banner that I may be affiliated with. My latest book- Intimacy and the Sacred http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000463374

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