Section 9. Prohibited marriages. (ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW ENACTMENT 1987

ENACTMENT NO. 3 OF 1987
ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW ENACTMENT 1987

PART II - MARRIAGE

Section 9. Prohibited marriages.

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

(a) his mother or her father;

(b) his grandmother or her grandfather 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-low-soever, of the brother or sister;

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

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

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

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

(b) his stepmother or her stepfather, being his father's wife or her other's husband;

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

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

(e) his stepdaughter how-low-soever whose mother has had sexual intercourse with him;

(f) her stepson how-low-soever.

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

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