Marriage Contract and Mahr
6,610 questions
What is the religious ruling on marriage after the suitor's father swore an oath of divorce upon the suitor's mother that this marriage would not take place due to a dispute with the fiancée's paternal uncle, even though the suitor's father knows that the fiancée is a good person?
Can I return to my husband, from whom I was divorced unwillingly through Khulʿ, without first marrying another man?
What is the ruling on the marriage contract (aqd al-qiran) without mentioning the names of the two spouses therein?
What are the legitimate rights my daughter can claim after her husband divorced her, given that he was not informed of her illness before the marriage, and he even seized her deferred dower?
What is the religious ruling on the marriage of a man who is frequently absent from home due to work, to a woman who stipulates living with his family only in his presence, and refuses to do so in his absence?
How can one be sure of the sincere repentance of an engaged man after he has committed zina, and what is the necessary period for that before completing the marriage, knowing that it is not possible to annul the engagement?
Is a non-Muslim woman whose husband has died required to observe the legal waiting period (iddat al-wafat) of four months and ten days if a Muslim man proposes to her two weeks after his death?
What is the ruling on the divorce of an angry person? Is the divorce of an angry person considered like the divorce of an intoxicated person? Is the third divorce considered a divorce under duress?
What is the intended meaning of Ibn al-Jawzi’s text that prohibits insistence in supplication if one’s prayer is not answered, and how can this be reconciled with the urgent need of the questioner to supplicate that her family’s hearts soften to allow her to visit the family of her deceased fiancé?
What is the Sharīʿah ruling on a wife going out to work without the consent of her husband, who does not fulfill his duties, and what are the limits of a wife's obedience to her husband regarding leaving the house?
What is the ruling regarding a husband's insistence that his pregnant wife abort for a second time, after convincing her to abort their first fetus, and his appropriation of her money, and the wife's refusal to abort and her insistence on keeping her child and her money, knowing that they are informally married and live abroad?
Is what I did — breaking off the engagement after sensing the suitor’s initial reluctance, the deterioration of your relationship, his actions that do not align with your religious personality, and his desire to isolate you from your mother — considered a Sharia transgression, and what are the characteristics of a righteous young man suitable for marriage?
What is the Shariah ruling on my current job, which requires me to communicate with a foreign man via phone and internet for work matters, and is this job considered wrong or sinful?
Does the husband have the right to revoke the document relinquishing one-third of the marital home to his first wife in court without her knowledge, after he has had children from a second wife, especially given that the document was made to circumvent the condition of her consent to his second marriage in Iraqi law?
What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding the aforementioned marriages and divorces, and is this wife permissible for the husband after all these divorces, knowing that she has three children from him?
Are the tuition expenses for my married daughter my responsibility or her husband's?
Is it permissible for both parties to marry by agreeing not to engage in sexual relations due to an illness afflicting one of them?
What is the Shar'i ruling on the case of a man who married a woman, then her sister claimed her death, so the man married the daughter of her sister, and then the first wife appeared to be alive?
Is the ongoing relationship between the questioner and the girl unlawful after her parents and people have known for all these years that she is his wife? And is everything he has spent on her from his money considered unlawful for her? And is it permissible for him to continue with the marriage to her in court, yielding to her family's wish? And if he marries her and his family finds out what he has done and asks him to divorce her, should he abandon this marriage or marry her and divorce her without his family's knowledge?
Are the three divorces that occurred at distant intervals counted, and is it permissible for the wife to return to her husband?
Is a man sinful if he enjoys his wife, to whom he is lawfully wedded but with whom he has not yet consummated the marriage, if custom prohibits it? And do the spouses have the right to enjoy each other before consummation, in order to protect themselves from error, lower their gaze, and guard their chastity, especially if there are circumstances preventing consummation, such as the wife completing her studies?
What is the Sharia ruling on a couple returning to each other after a divorce of which the wife was unaware, and which occurred under duress before consummation?
Is my marriage Islamically valid to a woman whose brother agreed to her marriage, while her father is in another country and did not attend the عقد (marriage contract), and is it permissible to consider the brother a guardian in this case?
Is the wife entitled to seek divorce based on the outcome of Istikhara prayer, given that the marriage contract has been concluded and the wedding date set?