Is it permissible for one who has committed zina (fornication or adultery) to get married after he or she has repented?

 

I am a muslim that converted about three years ago. I am still learning and I have a question. I have been told that if I had sex after I converted I would not be able to islamically get married under the ways of islam. I wanted to know if this is true and if it is, is there any way to correct the deed that I am so very sorry for.

Praise be to
Allaah.

The
one who has committed zina (fornication or adultery) has to repent,
because zina is one of the major sins which are forbidden in Islam and
for which a stern warning is issued to the one who does them. Allaah
says (interpretation of the meaning): 

“And
those who invoke not any other ilaah (god) along with Allaah, nor kill
such person as Allaah has forbidden, except for just cause, nor commit
illegal sexual intercourse
and whoever does this shall receive the punishment.

The
torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will
abide therein in disgrace”

[al-Furqaan
25:68-69] 

The
punishment must be carried out in this world on the one who has committed
zina (fornication or adultery), as Allaah says (interpretation of the
meaning): 

“The
fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them with a hundred stripes.
Let not pity withhold you in their case, in a punishment prescribed
by Allaah, if you believe in Allaah and the Last Day. And let a party
of the believers witness their punishment”

[al-Noor
24:2] 

It
was narrated in a hadeeth from the Prophet

(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): “Receive (teaching) from
me, receive (teaching) from me. Allaah has ordained a way for those
(women). When an unmarried male commits adultery with an unmarried female,
(they should receive) one hundred lashes and banishment for one year.
And in the case of a married male committing adultery with a married
female, they shall receive one hundred lashes and be stoned to death.”

(Narrated
by Muslim, al-Hudood, 3199). 

Allaah
has forbidden the believers to marry a person who commits zina, whether
man or woman. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): 

“The
adulterer — fornicator marries not but an adulteress — fornicatress
or a Mushrikah; and the adulteress –fornicatress, none marries her except
an adulterer — fornicater or a Mushrik [and that means that the man
who agrees to marry (have a sexual relation with) a Mushrikah (female
polytheist, pagan or idolatress) or a prostitute, then surely, he is
either an adulterer — fornicator, or a Mushrik (polytheist, pagan or
idolater). And the woman who agrees to marry (have a sexual relation
with) a Mushrik (polytheist, pagan or idolater) or an adulterer — fornicator,
then she is either a prostitute or a Mushrikah (female polytheist, pagan,
or idolatress)]. Such a thing is forbidden to the believers (of Islamic
Monotheism)”

[al-Noor
24:3] 

If
the one who has committed zina repents to Allaah, truly and sincerely,
then Allaah will forgive him or her, and overlook the sin. Allaah says,
after mentioning the warning to those who commit zina: 

“Except
those who repent and believe (in Islamic Monotheism), and do righteous
deeds; for those, Allaah will change their sins into good deeds, and
Allaah is Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful.

And
whosoever repents and does righteous good deeds; then verily, he repents
towards Allaah with true repentance”

[al-Furqaan
25:70-71 – interpretation of the meaning] 

If
the person repents sincerely, then it becomes permissible for him or
her to get married, after they give up this sin.  

Shaykh
Muhammad ibn Ibraaheem was asked about the ruling on getting married
to a woman who has committed zina. He said: “it is not permissible to
marry the woman who has committed adultery until she repents… if a man
wants to marry her, he has to be sure that she is not pregnant, by waiting
until she has a period before he does the marriage contract with her.
If she is pregnant, then it is not permissible for him to marry her
until she has given birth.” 

See
al-Fataawa al-Jaami’ah li’l-Mar’ah al-Muslimah, 2/584

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