isnt their a hadiths which says swear by Allah and nothin else?
go and google it someone
also lyin is bad anyway, but swearin not to lie and then lyin is baad!
also the Quraan was revealed to be read and get hikmah from, not to be taken as a oath thingy :mmokay:
In Madrassa we studied that an oath could not be by anything other than Allah, but simply saying I swear was binding. But I am not sure if this refers to only the second type of swearing, or all of them.
But we also studied, that there are 3 types of oaths:
1. You swear to something that happened in the past and while swearing, think that what you are swearing is true. (even if it isn't). There is no sin or kuffarah for this.
2. You swear to do something in the future, like I swear I'll kill my parrot. Breaking this, (if you don't kill your parrot) means you must give kuffarah.
3. You swear to something that happened in the past, and know during the swearing that you are lying. This type of swearing is sinning, but there is no kuffarah except Tawbah and Istighfar.
This info taken from the Hanafi book of Fiqh, Qudoori.
The reason I think a mufti should be asked is because:
a, I am not sure if it counts as swearing if you swear by the Quran.
b, Like I said, lying to save a marriage is allowed (I think). So is swearing to save a marriage also allowed?