The Impact of Interfaith Marriage from the Maqashid Sharia Perspective

Abstract

This article discusses the impact of interfaith marriage from the perspective of Maqashid Sharia. The core of the discussion of this article is about the impact caused if there is an interfaith marriage which will be associated with maqashid sharia, namely maintaining religion, soul, mind, offspring and property. Because the phenomenon of interfaith marriage is quite common in Indonesia even though there are already several regulations prohibiting it, one of which is in the Compilation of Islamic Law. The methodology used in this research is qualitative research with library research data collection techniques, the author takes data from books, scientific journals and so on. The qualitative research that the author uses is research that produces information in the form of notes and descriptions contained in the text under study. So that the results of the research in this article are that Islam itself pays considerable attention to the issue of marriage, which includes marriage between people of different religions or interfaith marriage. This has become a heated controversy, namely with the increasingly widespread practice of interfaith marriages carried out by the Indonesian people. Of course this interfaith marriage will have an impact that will affect his life by looking from the perspective of maqashid sharia will have an impact on religion, his future offspring, soul, mind and also his property.