Open AccessIs It Possible to Perform Online Marriage during COVID-19 Outbreak?
Author(s) -
Abdul Syatar,
Muammar Muhammad Bakry
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kresna social science and humanities research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2774-3918
DOI - 10.30874/ksshr.20
Subject(s) - islam , jurisprudence , normative , legislature , marriage law , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , sharia , law , space (punctuation) , fiqh , sociology , political science , history , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
This article aims to initiate on performing marriage contracts virtually during the co-19 pandemic in Indonesia. This article adopts normative and empirical facts that occur among Muslims in Indonesia. An interesting result of this study state the teachings of Islamic jurisprudence allows do a marriage contract via online as discussed by classical clerics across schools. The consideration for the government and legislative body in the future should be to look again at the views of classical and contemporary scholars. Muslims must accept the fact that marriage in Indonesia no longer refers to the books of the clergy, but to the marriage law. Therefore, the book of scholars is used as a source for updating the marriage law for the understanding and benefit of Muslims. Without banging on religious and state polemics but integrating them into marriage laws relevant to space and time