{"id":1635,"date":"2008-08-20T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2008\/08\/20\/imams_response_to_the_islamic_marriage_contract"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:24:43","slug":"imams_response_to_the_islamic_marriage_contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/08\/20\/imams_response_to_the_islamic_marriage_contract","title":{"rendered":"Imam&#8217;s response to the &#8220;Islamic&#8221; marriage contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haitham al-Haddad (a &quot;salafi&quot; imam based, if I remember rightly, at al-Muntada al-Islami in west London) has given a lengthy response to the recent &quot;Islamic&quot; marriage contract published by the Ghayasuddin Siddiqui front organisation, the Muslim Institute.  It&#39;s a YouTube video in seven parts and starts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FGRA252Y9BU\">here<\/a>.  This has attracted a lot of hostility from Muslims online, despite having claimed the support of the Muslim Council of Britain, which it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcb.org.uk\/article_detail.php?article=announcement-734\">doesn&#39;t have<\/a>, and the Islamic Shari&#39;ah Council, which it also doesn&#39;t have.  <em>Insha Allah<\/em>, more from me on this later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haitham al-Haddad (a &quot;salafi&quot; imam based, if I remember rightly, at al-Muntada al-Islami in west London) has given a lengthy response to the recent &quot;Islamic&quot; marriage contract published by the Ghayasuddin Siddiqui front organisation,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dividers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-qn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41784,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/41784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}