It is an issue of agreement between the parties. The father demands an amount and the groom to be either accepts or negotiates.
Read moreThere isn’t anything in the Sunnah limiting the dowry to an amount of money. It depends on the country and the person paying that money. In the Gulf, 15,000 is average or a bit below average. The groom has to pay for everything such as the house and furnishing it. Therefore, it is OK to […]
Read moreIf she forgives her husband from the mahar, when she files for divorce, the husband may ask for some money but not for the mahar as he had received it. He may ask for some compensation. He shouldn’t ask for the gifts or for what he had spent on his wife but he may ask […]
Read moreIf the marriage contract was done but the dowry or mahar was not paid, this doesn’t affect the marriage as it is a debt with the husband. They are legally married and he can be with her in her parents’ house.
Read moreThere isn’t anything as such to my knowledge. The dowry should be as the norm in your community. It shouldn’t be a lot and it shouldn’t also be too little as the woman should benefit from it.
Read moreThe woman can ask before the marriage, whatever she wants as her Mahr. The man has the right to accept and continue with the marriage or refuse and leave.
Read moreIt is wrong from your wife to visit her x-husband. This is not acceptable neither in Islam nor in common sense as he is a total stranger to her. Divorcing her is something you have to decide whether it was wrong or not. If she insisted on going to him even though you told […]
Read moreDowry is the mahar given to the husband in some cultures such as in India and Sri Lanka. This is not permissible. It is the man who should provide everything to his wife. However, if women would not get married without doing this, in this case they can give the man and he is sinful […]
Read moreIt is not permissible. Dowry is the mahar given to the husband in some cultures such as in India and Sri Lanka. This is not permissible. It is the man who should provide everything to his wife. However, if women would not get married without doing this, in this case they can give the man […]
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