She's A Christian,am A Muslim. Can This Marriage Work?

If you wanna practise Islam successfully, don't marry a Christian. Look at it from this angle, is she gonna be down with Saum and Hajj when she does not understand the basics,

it will work

my parents are the exact combination and have been happily married for over 30 years. =)

this is really a serious issue.am in such a situation though am indiff com my deen isnt that deep(aint proud to say that~)i respect and love this religion a lot.but what happens if we get married and crop up kids

hummmmmmmmmmmmm, the people of the book are infidels, please what is the meaning of infidel? it is a degrading word. And Islam permit one to marry an infidel, it must be a mistake abi, how can an unrighteous marry unrighteous, dey no bi desame na, abi na another way of adding to the family of the truth defenders. :'(I pity that woman because if jihad start pere hm,  she go know say khaki no be lether. na him wife him go first comot for road to aljanah. Even if na asasi make the lady go think am wel wel before she just inside everlasting  ocean. my advise be say let the people of the book marry themselves and the truth defenders marry themselves for a better cordial and marital relationship. remember two different things can not give way to one uniform thing. be wise o make them no use ya head do steping stone to go aljanah.

Ahhhh!
The bliss that comes from the ignorance of men when they really choose to let their emotions over ride their reasoning!
Seriously how many people on this post have actually been on one side of the religious divide whilst their partner whom they truly love is on the other?
As far as im concerned all ive seen are posts & plenty more posts that fail to address the mans fears, sincerely!

On a general note,Let me ask based on both couples having the same religious backgrounds,which religion has a higher divorce rate, or more lightly put more complaints about spousal differences?

I keep saying this the bane of our problem is we never accept the truth,we just let our emotions & "religious preferrential differences" run riot whenever issues involving religion is involved.

Lets go back to the basics believing of course that everyone here apart from getting some form of education {which i must say im having difficulty convincing myself on its effect, sorry but i need to be honest!} also reads other books on self improvement.

At some point even if its just a snippet from a newspaper column on relationships, we all must have read something on the issue of relationships so i ask

WHAT ARE THE BASIS FOR A SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIP OF ANY KIND?

DOES MY GETTING MARRIED TO SOMEONE OF THE SAME RELIGION AS MINE GIVE 100% GUARANTEE THAT MY MARRIAGE WOULD BE FREE OF CHALLENGES OF ANY FORM LET ALONE DIVORCE?

WHAT IF MY PARENTS WERE OF YOUR RELIGION & MINE OF YOURS, WOULD WE STILL SEE THINGS THIS WAY?

&[MY FAVOURITE!], WHAT ROLE EXACTLY DID YOU PLAY IN YOUR BEING BORN INTO YOUR PRESENT RELIGION, THAT GIVES YOU AUTHORITY TO BLAME ANOTHER?, im just asking but your response hopefully would be intelligent enough.

Lets be honest with ourselves here, I believe people come here to share their views and concerns on issues so that they could be improved as individuals and so that people with similar challenges can learn, let that be at the back of our minds when we click on reply, please.

I know a couple both christains with three daughters today theyre seperated, theyre still christains even afterwards.

I also know a man who is a muslim married a muslim  for close to Eleven years today hes seperated from his wife, irreconcilleable differences he says, theyre both still muslims, with two sons and a daughter between them.

I had a Prof at school then whose wife was from a christain family,Hes a muslim, their kids are grown now all out of the house now the mans about retiring now.Met his wife the other day she said she came to get curtains for their home in the village according to her Prof was retiring soon & they had to leave the staff Quarters for our own house, I could be wrong but if she hadnt been happy with her husband all this while I dont think that look of peace on her face that day would have been there.

A friend of mines married to a christain wife hes also christain, & theyre both really happy with themselves just got back from a second honeymoon they called it in Ghana after 9yrs of marriage!

A really close friend of mine from a muslim family,you need to see the way her parents talk with each other youd almost certainly assume they were secondary school students, their first son is out of the university,the man still buys his wife chocolates!

If we all choose to look closely we all have similar examples from around us except our bias often blocks our view of things.

I really dont think God brings challenges that are beyond us our way,

How come the very thing that preaches love & peace becomes the basis for so much, ?

Dude i hope im not too late responding but if you both truly love each other, do you know even if its not the religion thing,theres tribe issue,social standing of both families?Trust me you dont want to even go there,you'd hear people of the same tribe say they dont think you should marry because of differences in your dialects!
Try raising the post and see.Youd be amazed!

, like i was saying if you both love each other, take time to be good to each other, be friends to one another,talk, talk, &more talk to each other, youd be amazed how far things will work out.

There really is a difference btw religion & knowing God.

All the best!

What a gullible fella

@todak: « #71 on: March 17, 2009, 01:00 AM » 
open the "holy Bible" (lol) and in the Book of Timothy, you shall find it, Infidel that is. Then open up the Quran in Arabiya la alakum taa ki luun. By Allah I guarantee that you will not see it in there. (That is in Arabic; its no word existing, though I may call you a "kilab, but no infidel "an english word" lol!

I agree. Shame on the book that you shall find it in! That book belongs to the dog; Kilab.

Since Quran does not call anybody infidel, then I guess you are wrong, and the book you will find it in 'timothy' of the Bible will be what?