Section 9. Relationship prohibiting marriage. (ISLAMIC FAMILY LAWS ENACTMENT 1991

ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 1992
ISLAMIC FAMILY LAWS ENACTMENT 1991

PART II -MARRIAGE

Section 9. Relationship prohibiting marriage.

(1) No man or women, as the case may be, shall, on the ground of consanguinity, marry-

(a) his mother or father;

(b) his grandfather or grandmother and upwards, whether on the side of the father or the mother, and his or her ascendants, how-high-soever;

(d) his sister or her brother of the same parents, his sister or her brother of the same father, and his sister or her brother of the same mother;

(e) the

daughter of his brother or sister, or the son of her brother or sister and the descendants, how-law-soever of the brother or sister;

(f) his aunt or her uncle on his or her father's side and her or his ascendants;

(g) his aunt or her uncle on his or her mother's side and her or his ascendants.

(2) No man or women, as the case may be, shall, on the ground of affinity (musaharah), marry-

(a) his mother-in-law or father-in-law and the ascendants of his wife or her husband, how-high-soever;

(b) his stepmother or her stepfather, being his father’s wife or her mother’s husband;

(c) his step grandmother or step grandfather being the wife of his grandfather or the husband of her grandmother, whether on the side of her grandmother, whether on the side of the father or the mother;

(d) his daughter-in-law or her son-in-law;

(e) his stepdaughter or her stepson and her or his descendants, how-low-soever.

(3) No man or woman, as the case may be, shall, on the ground of fosterage, marry any women or any man connected with him or her through some act of suckling where, if it had been instead an act of procreation, the women or man would have been within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity.

(4) No man shall have two wives at any one time who are so related to each other by consanguinity, affinity, or fosterage that if either of them had been a male a marriage between them would have been illegal in Hukum Syarak.