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What is the wife's right to the list of movables if she requests a divorce (khulʿ), and the Mahr (dowry) is entirely deferred, and the spouses jointly purchased the movables, and the list is in the wife's name?

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If the wife seeks a Khul‘ (divorce initiated by the wife in exchange for compensation) for a specific compensation, she is obligated to fulfill what she agreed upon. She is not obligated to return the entire Mahr (dowry). It is permissible for her to seek Khul‘ by returning part of it or more than it. If she seeks Khul‘ by forfeiting her entire Mahr, what is intended is what was agreed upon at the time of the marriage contract, whether it was written in the contract or the قائمة (list of marital assets) or not. If the قائمة includes items bought by both spouses with their own money, then the wife's right is whatever she bought with her money or with her guardian’s money.

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