Muslims and Fatima questions

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Do Muslims believe that Mary was a Virgin and remained a Virgin? If so, where can I find information regarding that?

Also, did Muhammad’s daughter Fatima convert to Christianity? If so, did she convert to Catholicism?

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Most of what muslims believe about Mary is found in surah 19 of the Qur’an. In surah 19, there is nothing there that says that Mary remained a virgin-- it only says that she was a virgin when she was impregnated. Surah 19:20 says “She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?”. Islam does not affirm or deny that Mary was perpetually a virgin.

As for your question about Fatima, I’ve never heard that theory before; and I was a muslim for six years. Her husband, Ali ibn abu Talib, was the fourth caliph of Islam. He was one of the most influential muslims of his generation, so if his wife had become a christian, certainly he would have said something about it. There’s nothing in sunni literature that says that she became a christian. Even in shi’a sources, as far as I know, there is no evidence that she became a christian. Believe me, if she did, the sources would be full of evidence about it and scholars would have been talking about it for years to come (people such as Imam Bukhari, who authored the hadiths of Sahih al-Bukhari, which is the most authentic collection of sunni oral traditions). Imam Bukhari didn’t mention it, so we can be fairly certain that Fatima did not become a christian.
 
Do Muslims believe that Mary was a Virgin and remained a Virgin? If so, where can I find information regarding that?

Also, did Muhammad’s daughter Fatima convert to Christianity? If so, did she convert to Catholicism?

Thanks
I think they do believe Mary was the Virgin Mary in the way we understand.

Most women in such times would have still been virgins by the time they got married. If not, they would have been stoned, or cast out - disgraced and/or killed (that goes for women in any religion back then). Therefore, to be known as the ‘Virgin Mary’:
  1. Cannot just mean she was simply a virgin before giving birth because this would not denote anything unusual in such times.
And, therefore…
  1. She must have been a Virgin after having given birth.
This is why Muslims not understanding that Jesus is God and not just a prophet, doesn’t make sense, because if His Mother was the Virgin Mary, in how the title is understood, then this must mean that Jesus was/is the Son of God.

It is one of those little contradictions, because really, I think a lot of Muslims honour Mary, so I am surprised that they haven’t actually worked this out. But under penalty of death by various fundamentalists, I would imagine such analysis verbalised or even allowed to linger in the mind, is somewhat off-putting.
 
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