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**elektikakass** · 07-02-2012, 09:59 PM

As salaam alaikum wa rahmatullah,

I have been reading some of the posts and I have obsereved a few things.

1) It is legal in the UK and the USA to marry one's first cousin, so in essence it can't be considered the same as marrying one's real brother or sister. Therefore, the idea of it being incest is a product of social thought and culture.

2) Some have acknowledged that Islam permits such marriages, but they themselves consider such a practise abhorrent (or as one member stated 'Nasty'). I feel such comments are dangerous for one's Imaan because it is tantamount to considering that which Allah made permissible to be impure and inproper, and we seek Allah's refuge from having such opinions, Ameen.

07-02-2012, 09:59 PM	#7
elektikakass Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 397 Senior Member	As salaam alaikum wa rahmatullah, I have been reading some of the posts and I have obsereved a few things. 1) It is legal in the UK and the USA to marry one's first cousin, so in essence it can't be considered the same as marrying one's real brother or sister. Therefore, the idea of it being incest is a product of social thought and culture. 2) Some have acknowledged that Islam permits such marriages, but they themselves consider such a practise abhorrent (or as one member stated 'Nasty'). I feel such comments are dangerous for one's Imaan because it is tantamount to considering that which Allah made permissible to be impure and inproper, and we seek Allah's refuge from having such opinions, Ameen.
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