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Assalam alaikum
I am a 27 yera ol unmarried man and i am emotionally involved with a female marreid cousin of mine who is a victim of forced marriage ,her parents imposed a husband on her without her consent in 2007,she has no kids yet.she wants khulu(separation)from her husband as she is not fullfiling his due rights ,she tried a lot to be good wife but all in vain.
now she has asked me that whether i would marr her or not after ther saparation from her.i laso want to marry her as we have good undersatnding , i feel that we would have a good future if we got married.
I want to know that will I be sinfull if i help her in taking khulu and then to marry her?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
It is not permissible for you to interfere in the affairs of this girl or to help her in getting Khul’, because this may be considered as spoiling the marital relationship between her and her husband. Spoiling the relationship between a wife and her husband is forbidden as we clarified in Fatwa 92056. Besides, you must stop thinking about her because now she is married.
However, her guardian and her relatives should endeavour to reconcile between her and her husband. If this happens, then praise be to Allaah, but if she really fears to be neglectful about the rights of her husband on her because of hating him, then she has the right to ask for Khul’.
In case her husband divorces her without you causing the spoiling of the marital relationship between her and her husband, and her waiting period finishes, then you may propose to marry her. In any case, if we presume that she stays with her husband or that marrying her has not been facilitated for you after she separates from him, then you should look for another woman to marry, as they are so many women.
On the other hand, how would you know that if you marry her you will be happy? Indeed, there are many marriages that took place because of love but which ultimately failed. Therefore, you should not surrender yourself to fake love illusions.
For more benefit, please refer to Fatwa 84544.
Allaah Knows best.
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