Thank you both for the replies! But if Imam Ja'far Sadiq (as) madhab is the truth, what if the rules which governed our marriage conflict with the Ja'fari madhab? For example, in Sunni madhab, the repentence for two who commited zina before marriage is not dependant on the validity of a marriage. Yet from what I understand fom Ayatollah Sistani (May Allah bless him), such a marriage is not valid. 2408. If a person commits fornication with an unmarried woman and who is not in Iddah, as a precaution, he cannot marry her till he has sought forgiveness from Allah, and repented. But if ano