What is the legal ruling regarding what the questioner's husband and his family did to her after her father agreed with the husband not to take a dowry in exchange for the husband furnishing the marital home, and it was written in the marriage certificate, concerning the advanced dowry, "The guardian acknowledged its receipt," despite it not being received, and concerning the deferred dowry, "The two parties agreed upon it," despite the husband and his family denying the existence of a deferred dowry and considering it haraam (forbidden) and an innovation? Can the wronged party demand a customary dowry (mahr al-mithl) as her deferred dowry?
If the spouses agree only on the prompt dowry, and the wife consents to that, then she has no right to demand a deferred dowry, even if the husband deceived her by claiming it is unlawful, because the deferred dowry is not obligatory unless it is stipulated in the contract.
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