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London, United Kingdom — A motorway service station is hardly a romantic place for a date. But when Aisha Rosalie and Sultan Akhtar met after matching on a Muslim dating app at the beginning of March, a national lockdown ended any hopes of getting to know each other in more quaint settings. By the time social distancing restrictions eased in June, the couple had decided they wanted to be married. But mosques across the country were still closed, and it was difficult to find an imam to officiate the nikah, the Muslim marriage ceremony.

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Four weeks later, Akhtar asked his local imam in Dewsbury on a whim. The imam told the couple to come the next day and so, within four months of meeting, they were happily married on July 4. It was an excuse for us to make it simple, to make it about me, Sultan, Allah [God], and getting married.

As some lockdown measures remain in place across the United Kingdom, dating in the age of the coronavirus has increasingly moved online. In the two weeks after the lockdown began, there was a 13 percent increase in the of users logging in to Muzmatch, the app Rosalie and Akhtar used.

Globally, the app saw a 45 percent increase in downlo in March, when many countries enforced stricter distancing rules. With limits on wedding guest s and concerns over safety, religious marriage ceremonies and celebrations have gone online.

Sultan Ahmed, director of the Nikah Company, a Muslim matrimonial service in the UK, has officiated more than nikahs with three other imams over Zoom. By August, they had wed more couples than in all But the topic of online nikahs has drawn some controversy; there is a difference of opinion on whether they are valid.

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Ahmed and the scholars he consulted have concluded that given the exceptional circumstances, Muslim couples can get married online as long as certain conditions are fulfilled. The ceremony was streamed live as hundreds of their family members watched in from around the world.

While Ahmed has helped many couples begin the next chapter of their lives, the shift to digital has been challenging. By Aina Khan.

After finding one another on the app, they spoke on video chat every day. Zoom nikahs With limits on wedding guest s and concerns over safety, religious marriage ceremonies and celebrations have gone online.

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