Muslim marriage registration Procedure Normally it’s registered under the Special marriage act 1954. All necessary documents should be submitted to the marriage registrar’s office. Husband, wife and 3 witnesses will have to visit physically to the registrar’s office. 30 days notice will be issued.

Many Muslims in the UK have an Islamic religious marriage ceremony – a Nikah – in an unregistered building and do not have an additional civil ceremony. This means that their marriage will not be recognised as being legally valid.

Your nikah is a valid marriage under English law. If your relationship ends, you need to file for a civil divorce to end the marriage under English Law.

A court has reversed a judgment from two years ago which found that a couple who had an Islamic wedding ceremony could legally divorce. The High Court ruled in 2018 that the couple’s Islamic “nikah” ceremony fell within English marriage law. But the Court of Appeal has now said it was an “invalid” non-legal ceremony.

Therefore, provided that a mosque is registered as above, and the couple give due notice at their local register office, then they can have a perfectly valid Muslim ceremony at a mosque, and they will get a marriage certificate at the end of it. There is then no need to have a civil marriage.

A marriage in Islam must be between opposite-sex partners who are not too closely related to each other. Muslim men are permitted to choose wives from among fellow believers or from among other “people of the book”: Christians and Jews. Women are expected to marry only other Muslims.

Nikah means marriage and halala means to make something halal, or permissible. This form of marriage is haram (forbidden) according to the hadith of Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Although it is not encouraged, most Muslims agree that divorce is permitted if a marriage has broken down, and generally Muslims are permitted to re-marry if they so wish.