Marriage Contract and Mahr
6,610 questions
To what extent is it true that the Sharia obliges the husband to provide his wife with a standard of living and furnishings similar to what she had in her parents' home, and is it permissible to delay the wedding because of this?
Is the husband's penetration, despite the wife's strong aversion and refusal, and her not allowing him to see her body, considered a legal consummation that necessitates financial support (nafaqa), dowry (mahr), and 'idda (waiting period), or is it an incomplete enablement (tamkeen) that does not obligate financial support, especially given the conflicting fatwas regarding the understanding of complete enablement, and what are the consequences of the wife's apostasy after consummation, and is it considered an annulment of the contract or an irrevocable divorce?
Is marriage considered void if one is coerced into it and does not inwardly consent to it, and is it permissible in this case to seek a divorce and marry someone else?
Does a girl who has had her marriage contract (aqd qiran) solemnized, but whose wedding has not yet taken place, sin by refusing to allow her husband to be intimate with her, justifying this by saying that she is still in her parents' home and financially dependent on them, and that her husband is currently unable to provide for her?
Is the husband entitled to reclaim the dowry or part of it, and take the gifts (gold and otherwise) that he or his family presented to his wife, if he wishes to divorce her after six months of marriage due to his aversion to her and his suspicion that she had an illicit relationship before marriage?
What is the ruling on a husband who accuses his wife of treachery, abandons her, and threatens her with divorce after thirty years of marriage, merely because she wanted to reconcile with her brother whom the wife had alienated due to the husband accusing him of theft?
What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding the occurrence of a third divorce, and are the two previous divorces counted if one of them was before consummation and the other during a verbal dispute after marriage?
Does a divorce, issued by a husband saying "you are divorced" to his wife, take effect if he has not consummated the marriage with her, nor has there been a legitimate seclusion between them after the marriage contract, and married life has not yet begun between them?
What is the ruling on a man marrying a woman while he is already married to her maternal aunt? Is this marriage considered void, especially since he has had children with her and cannot leave her or her aunt?
Is it Islamically permissible for the mahr (dower) to be the husband's performance of a religious duty instead of money, and must the mahr be specified in the marriage contract?
Is suicide permissible out of fear of committing fornication, especially with the repeated occurrence of sinning with one's fiancé every time?
What is the ruling on dealing with a sorcerer father? And does his obedience and dutifulness fall away due to his disbelief? And what is the status of his wife, his money, his food, and his maintenance in relation to his children? And is it permissible for a child to report his father or his sorceress wife? And what is the ruling on warning against a sorcerer without proof? And what is the validity of a marriage contract in which the guardian is a sorcerer? And what is the ruling on his accusing his son of sodomy? And what is the ruling on reporting him to the ruler for spreading Sufism?
Does what occurred during the engagement, in terms of offer, acceptance, and witnesses, make the girl a wife according to Islamic law?
Is it permissible to marry over the phone or the internet out of necessity, to avoid falling into fornication, in the event that there is no sheikh or authorized marriage official available in a very remote area?
What is the ruling on accepting marriage to a woman who stipulates living in the land of the disbelievers, taking into account the prophetic hadith: "I am innocent of every Muslim who resides among the polytheists," and is this condition considered contrary to the law of Allah based on the hadith: "Every contract that contravenes the law of Allah is shirk?"
Is it permissible to stipulate the waiving of the deferred (part of the) dowry upon the husband's death?
Is it permissible for a young Muslim man residing in Britain without papers to contract a mut'ah marriage, due to Muslim girls' unwillingness to marry him until he obtains his papers?
Do you consider your marital life permissible under the aforementioned circumstances, knowing that the divorce was perfunctory and the wife lives with him in the Netherlands without a marriage contract?
Is it permissible to submit incorrect medical certificates to complete a civil marriage contract when a medical certificate proving the absence of diseases in both spouses is required, given the difficulty in performing the necessary tests?
Did the girl err in dealing with the young man she loved, and to whom she was "religiously" married, according to their words, by reciting the Fatiha and giving a verse from the Quran as a dowry, and what should they do now?
How does the religiously sanctioned divorce (ṭalāq sharʿī) proceed for a woman who embraced Islam for marriage then apostatized, knowing that the marriage contract was solemnized by a shaykh who has since passed away and was not officially registered?
Is a marriage contract by proxy considered valid if the husband was not present, the dower was not mentioned, and the witnesses did not hear the agent's statement of acceptance of the marriage, even though both parties agreed?
Is it permissible for the suitor to see the hair of his fiancée before the marriage contract?
Does a man marrying a Turkish woman without consulting her guardian residing in Turkey, due to an inability to communicate, render the marriage invalid and unlawful throughout the seven-year duration of the marriage?