Must one pay the deferred Mahr and the 'iddah maintenance to a woman discovered after marriage to have been married to four men, worked as a prostitute, and has a daughter, and is it permissible to file a lawsuit to reclaim what was spent on the marriage?
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If safety from the aforementioned defects was not stipulated at the time of the contract, then these defects do not give the husband the option [to annul the marriage]. He must pay her deferred dower and the expenses of her ' (waiting period), and he has no right to reclaim anything from the prompt dower or what he spent on the marriage. As for her lying, it is a sin and an act of disobedience.
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