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Reciting surah is no mahr. It must be an item given to the wife; cash, car, apartment / house, etc. Only if he doesn’t possess anything at all, not even an extra shirt, then he may teach his wife a portion of the Quran as Mahar.

Please verify some people show some hadith in which Prophet S.A.W asked a man to give the Surah of a Quran in Mehr to his will-be-wife. So many people/girls by this hadith ask their respective spouse to give them 5 Salah, self hand written Quran, demand 1 surah of Quran to hifz etc as Mehr. I want to know all these forms of Mehr Permissible in Islam other than money?

Dowry | September 10, 2019 9:07 pm
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There is a brother who has asked for my hand in marriage. I am considering to ask him to memorize a surah as part of my mahr or as a condition of marriage. He agreed. Am I allowed to do this? And if so do you have any suggestion of any surah. I’ve read Surah An-Noor, An-Nisa and Al-Maidah are surahs that were adviced to learn by the salaf in different occasions.
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Once the Mahr is bought by the groom for the bride, is there any ruling that the Mahr needs to be given directly all by the groom himself to the bride or can he ask his parents or the girl’s parents to hand it over to her.