essalamoaleikoum.
1st of all i wanna answer to the people they re trying to help another sister.
stop beeing hepocrit please by telling her praye salat el estikhara allah will answer you. the answer is in the coran (haraaaaaaam) for a moslim woman to marry a non moslem man be honest and direct if you want to answer these kind of question thank you wa esllamoaleikoum.
wa alaykum salam wa rahmatullahi wa barkatuhu
i wanted to address this earlier. Look sis, I don't recall if anyone said what she was doing was alright. I certainly did not. However you realize, by asking her to pray Salatul-Istikaarah it is not an act of a hypocrite? How it could be so i have no idea, but it is not. When a person makes Istikaarah, they are asking of Allah to help them make their decision. Afterwards, a person may realize if something is good for them, Allah will make it easy, and if it is not, they should realize it themselves or Allah will make it hard for them.
It is not like Salatul-Istikaarah will place neon lights on which way to go, or prevent them from doing something wrong, but it helps. It is the prayer for guidance, and from WHOM? Allah (swt)!! Allah is in charge of everyones affairs, He is the one who chooses who will be guided, whose eyes will be opened, and to ask Him of a matter? Is that wrong?
Is it an act of a hypocrite to recommend that? :astag:
I ask your pardon, but I do not see nor feel it is so. I see where you are getting at, and i most certainly agree and know it is Haraam for a woman to marry a non-Muslim man, but at the same time, I do not see it wrong that she should do Istikaarah, because Allah guides, and He knows best.
Meanwhile I also recommended learning more about Islaam. Because without a reason, we humans rarely do, or obstain from doing a certain act or thing.
And again, if this has not been gotten through as i meant to imply in my first post, after you know it is wrong, then there is no more to be said. It's haraam to marry him unless he becomes a Muslim. Meanwhile you can talk to him about Islaam or whatever you wish as bro GP recommended.
May Allah help all of us. Ameen
wasalam