What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding a man's insistence on writing the full amount of the paid dowry (muqaddam al-sadaq), which is approximately 55,000 pounds, in the list of movables, while the wife's family refuses this and insists on writing a symbolic amount (25 piasters or 1 pound) as the dowry, claiming that this is the prevailing custom?
A wife has the right for what is written in the marriage contract to conform to reality, and she has the right to refuse the inscription of a deferred or immediate dower that differs from the agreed-upon dower.
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