Marriage Contract and Mahr
6,610 questions
Is a divorce that occurs for administrative purposes—to register the marriage in France—considered a revocable divorce, necessitating the waiting period, given the intention to take the wife back after renewing the documents?
Will Allah forgive what I have done, and can I stop what I was doing, exchanging kisses with a female relative of mine, knowing that Satan was the third between us, and that we feared Allah and felt guilty?
Is what happened considered a legitimate entry, and is the judge's ruling correct?
Is the husband entitled to annul the marriage contract and reclaim the dower and gifts from an unconsummated marriage if his wife is afflicted with an infectious disease that neither she nor her family disclosed to him before the contract?
Is it permissible to write a marriage contract for a Muslim of a nationality different from that of my country, or to write a marriage contract without consummation?
Does the wife have the right to demand the jewelry and the deferred dowry if she is the one who instigates problems, prevents the children from seeing the husband’s family, refuses a direct divorce, asks the husband to distance himself from his family, involves her family in their lives, deprives the husband of seeing his family with his children, and demands a divorce along with the advance dowry, the deferred dowry, the gold she borrowed from him willingly, in addition to her work salaries with which she helped him?
Is it permissible for a wife to return to her husband who divorced her before consummation, then took her back and she bore him children, knowing that he divorced her after the children were born and both of them wish to reconcile?
Is what was narrated about Al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah—may Allah be pleased with him—regarding his marriage to seventy women and divorcing them without a Sharia-compliant reason, then gathering four of them and divorcing them all at once, authentic? And is it permissible to describe his action as a mistake?
What is the ruling on a man marrying his nephew's wife after his (the nephew's) death or divorce?
Is it possible for me to take back my wife after divorcing her with a single pronouncement during a moment of anger, and then seek the second pronouncement of divorce from her?
What is the ruling on "zawj friend," which it is said Sheikh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani issued a fatwa allowing as a legitimate alternative to "girlfriend" and "boyfriend" for Muslim youth in the West?
Is it permissible to attribute the first and second born to the brother, and what is the ruling on the marriage contract after the woman gives birth to the first child, and is the brother obligated to divorce the woman, and what should be done if attributing the child to the brother is not permissible in official documents, and can the brother repent from that act?
Is it obligatory for fathers to provide for their children born out of wedlock before their conversion to Islam, given that there was no legal contract between them and the mothers?
Does a wife become divorced if she is raped? And may Allah reward you with goodness.
What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding demanding gold pieces after divorce, knowing that they were given as a gift and not as part of the agreed-upon dowry of $700, and that the wife admitted they were not her property when she retrieved her belongings?
Is the wife entitled to claim the dowry (jewelry and deferred portion) while preventing the children from seeing the husband's family, fabricating problems, demanding that he distance himself from his family, and claiming the advance dowry and gold he borrowed from her, in addition to her work salaries with which she helped him?
Is it permissible to accept gifts from the marriage officiant who performs the marriage contract?
Is a betrothal in which phrases of offer and acceptance were recited and one euro was paid as mahr considered an urfi marriage or merely a betrothal, especially given the lack of clarity regarding the intentions of the parties involved?
Is a husband's keeping his wife, who admitted to committing Zina (unlawful sexual intercourse), sodomy, and other relations before her conversion to Islam, and concealing her actions, considered permissible and will he be rewarded for it, or is it deemed Dayouthah (cuckoldry)?
Is infertility considered a sufficient reason for divorce in Islamic jurisprudence, and what is the opinion of the madhahib or Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah on this?
Does the divorce mentioned in the urfi marriage contract, which the husband admitted to having included falsely to appease his other wife, count as a valid divorce according to Islamic law or not?
What is the ruling of the Sharia on the continuation of a marriage with a husband who abandons his wife and children for many days, and does not provide for them regularly, knowing that the marriage contract was customary, with witnesses and a dowry?
Is the aforementioned sin—committing adultery after a formal engagement and the recitation of the Fatiha due to difficulties in marriage and fear of falling into widespread indecency with someone other than one's partner—considered among the major sins, and does the intention of seeking protection from falling into wider indecency mitigate its prohibition?
What is the ruling on someone who marries while not praying, and is the marriage contract void in this case based on the Hadith, "The covenant between us and them is prayer; whoever abandons it has disbelieved"?