Question: Is it prohibited by Sharī’aĥ for two lovers to marry each other?
Answer: They can marry each other as long as there is no Shar’ī prohibition. Remember, seeing each other, writing letters, talking on phone, sending gifts etc. before marriage are all Ḥarām and lead to Hell. Some lovers secretly have a ‘court marriage’ without informing their parents. This will most certainly hurt their parents’ feeling and especially humiliate the girl’s parents. If the man is not the ‘كُفۡو’ (Kufw) of the woman, then their marriage without the consent of her father or guardian is invalid. (Questions and answers about Kufw are given after a few pages.)
مَـعَـاذَ الـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ it is strictly Ḥarām and ignorant to use the incident of Sayyidunā Yūsuf عَـلٰى نَبِـيِّـنَا وَ عَـلَيْـهِ الـصَّلٰوة ُ وَالـسَّلَام and Zulaykhā to justify unreal love. Remember in that story the love was only from Zulaykhā, Sayyidunā Yūsuf عَـلٰى نَبِـيِّـنَا وَ عَـلَيْـهِ الـصَّلٰوة ُ وَالـسَّلَام was pure from it. Every Prophet (عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام) is Ma’ṣūm.
Question: These days in unreal love Sharī’aĥ is violated, why is this?
Answer: The biggest reason for this issue these days is that most Muslims lack Islamic knowledge and are away from a Sunnaĥ-inspiring Madanī environment. It is for this reason that a flood of sins has emerged everywhere. Watching romantic movies and dramas on TV, VCR, the internet etc., reading dramatised love incidents in newspapers, fake romantic fantasies in magazines, novels and monthly journals, sitting in mixed college and university classes, informal behaviour with non-Maḥram relatives and falling in the