12-30-2007, 09:45 PM
:bismillah:
The ahadith are not clear at all. infact I can safely argue that Muta' was never abrogated and is legitimate today.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir? It is a tafsir amongst many tafsirs which I use as a tool but don't completely rely on. Infact I have to say it ranks pretty low on my list.
From personal experience the majority of Muta' marriages are used in 4 cases.
1. Engagement period (clauses such as no sexual contact are normally added), it sort of serves as a trial period or familiarisation period to see if the man and woman get along.
2. Foreign Students in non-muslim lands who cant get married conventionally and are miles from their families.
3. Miscelleneous problems where two people need to become mahram to each other (again no sexual contact clauses normally added), e.g. Nurse carer-Patient, IVF and other embryo technologies which require a donor.
4. People who are too poor to get married conventionally.