Dear dr. Mansour, I am currently reading your article "Muslim Women Can Marry Peaceful Non-Muslim Men" on ahl-alquran.com, and it is helping me a lot. I am writing to you because I am in a similar situation, and I am in need of Islamic guidance. I am a Danish woman engaged with a Syrian man, and we both live in Denmark. We have been together for 1.5 years. We love each other a lot, and we want to get married and have a future and kids together, but it is difficult for us to find a way because he is Muslim, and I am an atheist. I have never been baptized or belonged to any faith. We have talked about our differences a lot, we have both been completely honest and respectful, and we have the same values regarding treatment of other people, the way we would raise our kids (I am fine with them being Muslim and circumsized if boys), and I encourage his religious practice of praying and abstaining from sins. We both know that I am a good, peaceful and moral woman who would not discourage his religion. The problem is 'just' that I do not believe in a God, and that is not something that I can see change. However, our values align, and I am sure we are good partners and supporters for each other. As we understand it, the Q'uran says that a Muslim man can only marry a woman from the book (Muslim, Christian or Jew). My question is, do you see a way this could work out? Is there any religious justification for such a marriage being valid? Do you have any recommendations for solutions? If you could recommend anything we could read (both in English or Arabic) that could help us, or other people we could talk to, that would be tremendously appreciated. Thank you so much and I apologise for taking your time.