An Egyptian Salafist cleric Mazen Al-Sersawi has brought about severe outrage online after his video which says Islam allows men to marry their illegitimate daughters went viral.
Al-Azhar in the video cites prominent Muslim jurist Imam Al-Shafi’i as saying that illegitimate daughters are not officially attributed to their fathers and can thus be married to them.
He further explained that if a child that comes from a man’s extramarital intercourse with a woman can be married to the father.
“She is not his daughter according to Sharia. She is not officially attributed to him,” he said, adding that illegitimate daughters do not carry their fathers’ names.