Ramadan: Why do Muslims say Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men when 2:221 clearly?

As far as the interfaith marriages are concerned, Islam does not encourage them. The general rule of Islam is that Muslims should marry Muslims. A Muslim male or female should not marry a non-Muslim male or female.

Allah Almighty says: “ Wed not idolatresses till they believe; for lo! a believing bondwoman is better than an idolatress though she please you; and give not your daughters in marriage to idolaters till they believe, for lo! a believing slave is better than an idolater though he please you. These invite unto the Fire, and Allah inviteth unto the Garden, and unto forgiveness by His grace, and expoundeth thus His revelations to mankind that haply they may remember.” (Al-Baqarah: 221)

The only exception is given to Muslim men who are allowed to marry the girls from among the People of the Book.

Allah Almighty says: “This day are (all) good things made lawful for you. The food of those who have received the Scripture is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for them. And so are the virtuous women of the believers and the virtuous women of those who received the Scripture before you (lawful for you) when ye give them their marriage portions and live with them in honor, not in fornication, nor taking them as secret concubines. Whoso denieth the faith, his work is vain and he will be among the losers in the Hereafter.” (Al-Ma’dah: 5)

A Muslim woman should know that Allah has really honored her and made it easy for her by not allowing her to marry a non-Muslim man.

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"O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: nor say Of GOD aught but the truth. Messiah the son of Mary was (no more than) a Messenger of Allah" (The Holy Quran, 4:171)

you said Jesus Christ is not God but Son of God? is this Honor to him?

Jesus Himself upheld monotheism. When asked for the greatest command, Jesus responded, “. . . The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” (Mark 12:29-30).

Jesus taught that God is one, and Jesus taught that He was one with God (John 10:30). In response, the Jews picked up stones to stone Jesus because they thought He was guilty of blasphemy. Similarly, Muslims would say a man claiming to be God would be guilty of “shirk.” However, Jesus is not a mere man claiming to be God. He is the Son of God in human flesh (John 10:36-38).

The title “Son of God” does not mean Jesus was literally born from God. The Bible does not teach a parental relationship between God and Mary, as Muslims sometimes charge. At the birth of Jesus, the angel told the virgin Mary:

“. . . ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. . . . of his kingdom there will be no end.’ And Mary said to the angel, ‘How will this be, since I am a virgin?’ And the angel answered her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God’” (Luke 1:30-35).

Pastor John MacArthur explains these verses: “Since a son bears his father’s qualities, calling a person someone else’s ‘son’ was a way of signifying equality. Here the angel was telling Mary that her Son would be equal to the Most High God” (The MacArthur Study Bible).

19:88] They say: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a son!"

[19:89] Certainly you have made an abominable assertion

[19:90] The heavens may almost be rent thereat, and the earth cleave asunder, and the mountains fall down in pieces,

[19:91] That they should invoke a son for (Allah) Most Gracious.

[19:92] And it is not worthy of the Beneficent Allah that He should take (to Himself) a son.

And Allah knows best.

You are using the wrong verse, the Sura mentioned marriage with non Muslims is Al-Maeda no 5 verse 5 state that Muslim men are allowed to marry Christian and Jew women. But it did not say Muslim women can do the same. In that case you can't work your brain and try to Create something which Allah did not allow. How would the Muslim woman inherit her non Muslim husband or any of her non Muslim children when they die? how could she cook pork for her husband and serve wine for him? How could she ask for divorce if Christianity doesn't allow that? better in that case she convert to her husbands religion while this is against the main essence of Islam

I have discussed this verse personally with quite a few Muslims and I have got different opinions. Some do agree with your theory but others says bluntly that a man marrying a non muslim is against Islam.

The problem here is, the Quran leaves loop holes for multiple interpretations since 'idolaters ' is not clearly mentioned. The Quran warns about keeping Jews and Christians as friends; then in Sura 5:5 it says that it's Ok to marry people of the Book. There is confusion there.

Why does the Muslim God change his mind so often?

This is my understanding;

People of the book are not considered as idolators. Muslim men can marry the people of the book, but they are not allowed to marry someone who does not believe in GOD. However Muslims women are not even allowed to marry the people of the book.

This is because the father is usually the head of the family and if he is a Muslim the rules of the house will most likely based on Islamic rules (no-alcohol no-pork no-dog) these islamic rules does not defy any of the values and rules of people of the book. This does not become unfair.

But if he is christian or jew, then the rules of the house will most likely follow his traditions which tends to defy the values and rules of the muslim wife. This will become very unfair.

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yes, an unbeliever is one who does not believe in GOD and the people of the book believe in GOD.

It was great to see someone deducing fiqh from English translation of an isolated verse. Only Quranist can do that.

Read the following verse. If your explanation is correct, why Allah permitted Muslim men to marry Christian and Jew woman in a separate verse.

5:5 This day are (all) things good and pure made lawful unto you. The food of the People of the Book is lawful unto you and yours is lawful unto them. (Lawful unto you in marriage) are (not only) chaste women who are believers, but chaste women among the People of the Book, revealed before your time,- when ye give them their due dowers, and desire chastity, not lewdness, nor secret intrigues if any one rejects faith, fruitless is his work, and in the Hereafter he will be in the ranks of those who have lost (all spiritual good).

It is absolutely not permissible under any circumstances in Islamic law (shari'a) of Allaah, the most esteemed and exhalted, for a non-Muslim to marry a Muslim woman, as per what He has said regarding the marriage of a kaafir (unbeliever) to a Muslim woman and vice versa: (interpretation of the meaning).

They are not lawful (wives) for the unbelievers, nor are the unbelievers lawful (husbands) for them...

[al-Mumtahina:10]

““And do not marry Al-Mushrikaat (idolatresses) till they believe (worship Allaah Alone). And indeed a slave woman who believes is better than a (free) Mushrikah (idolatress), even though she pleases you.And give not (your daughters) in marriage to Al‑Mushrikoon till they believe (in Allaah Alone) and verily, a believing slave is better than a (free) Mushrik (idolater), even though he pleases you. Those (Al-Mushrikoon) invite you to the Fire, but Allaah invites (you) to Paradise and forgiveness by His Leave, and makes His Ayaat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) clear to mankind that they may remember”

[al-Baqarah 2:221]

Allaah prohibited the believers from marrying Mushrik women who worship idols and vice-versa. The meaning is general and includes every Mushrik woman and men from among the idol worshippers and the People of the Book and others. Mushrikoon can be polytheists, pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allaah or simply non-Muslims.

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But Allaah excluded the People of the Book from the above ruling. the conditions for a non-Muslim woman to marry a Muslim man is that she should be chaste.

“Made lawful to you this day are . . . chaste women from those who were given the Scripture (Jews and Christians) before your time . . .” [al-Maa’idah 5:5].

This permission serves as a hint to the people of the Book, so that they might realize that Islaam has made exceptions for the people of the Book in some rulings that it has not made for other kuffaar.

Allaah has permitted us to eat meat slaughtered by the people of the Book, and He has permitted us to marry their women out of respect for the origin of their religions which were based on Tawheed, and out of respect for the Messengers of those religions in whom we are commanded to believe and respect, and to demonstrate the difference between the attitude of the followers of Judaism and Christianity towards our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and the attitude of our religion towards their Prophets.

Finally, this ruling should not be strange for other religions, and it is not something odd that is applied by Islaam alone.

Why should some of those who attack our religion find it strange that Islaam forbids our women to marry non-Muslim men, when they do not marry one another even though they are followers of one religion? A Catholic cannot marry a Protestant woman and if he does so he is punished by the church, and vice versa.

According to the canon of the Egyptian Orthodox Coptic Church published in 1938 CE, article 6 states that “difference in religion is an impediment to marriage.”

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Insect,

1- Alquran is Araby.

2-Monotheists are not allowed to mingle with Pagans whether male or female.

by unbeliever its referring to the people who are not in the religion of islam. so if you don't believe what the muslims believe you are an unbeliever according to them.

Shy and too weak to stand against the enimies

Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men

1-cuz they <changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.>Romans 1

2-Leviticus 26

1Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

what about idol of Jesus PBUH ???

that is haram in islam too even in bible too.