HIV Test Before Marriage: Necessary?
Dear scholars, As-Salaam `Alaykum. I need an advice from you. As you know, AIDS is affecting millions of people worldwide. Within 30 years, Insha' Allah, there will be an estimated 75 million people infected with HIV. As a result of this widespread Fitnah, is it obligatory for a Muslim(mah) to require his/her marital candidate to get an AIDS test before marrying them? If they refuse, what should one do?In Western countries, it appears that we have a very high divorce rate. By the age of 30, 35, or 40, it is not uncommon for a Muslim(ah) to have been married and divorced 3, 4, or 5 times. Many of the Muslims in the West are reverts: that is, they were not born Muslims, but later embraced the Deen after many years of living a wanton life. So they may have slept with 6 to 20 people in his pre-Islamic life. And those people may have slept with 4 to 15 people. And those people may have slept with 5 to 15 people. Allah knows best. Be mindful, too, that some of their former "lovers" may have been in-the-closet homosexuals and the like. Jazakum Allah khayran.
