Marriage Contract and Mahr
6,610 questions
How valid is the marriage contract between the wife and the Imam of the Islamic center who annulled her first marriage contract, given that she was still in her waiting period (iddah)?
Is it the right of the man to compel his fiancée to hold the wedding ceremony in an Islamic manner and to wear an Islamic dress, and what should he do if she insists on the contrary, and what is the ruling of Islamic law regarding the consummation of the marriage or its non-consummation according to the husband's wish?
What is the ruling on taking an hourly wage in dollars for teaching foreigners the Quran and religion, and what is the legal ruling regarding the hadith of the bow?
Must a girl return to her fiancé who ended the engagement due to lack of understanding, then regretted it and wished to return, knowing that he overstepped the boundaries of engagement and doubted her character?
Is it permissible for a girl whose father usually rejects her suitors to ask someone she knows (and finds completely unsuitable) to propose to her again with a legitimate (Shar’i) intention?
What is the ruling on borrowing with interest for the purpose of marriage, and what should the fiancée do if she becomes aware of this?
Is the prayer of one who strives against himself and maintains his various forms of prayer, supplication, contemplation, and helping others accepted, even though he commits the sin of being alone with his fiancé, sending him pictures, and engaging in physical transgressions between them, despite their repeated attempts to stop?
Is it permissible to give the Mahr without witnesses?
What can be done, Islamically, regarding a girl whom the questioner wishes to marry, but her guardian has given his word to another person whom the girl does not desire?
Is it permissible for a woman to annul her marriage contract after three years of her husband's failure to provide for her or communicate with her, and his refusal to grant a divorce, due to the absence of an Islamic judge in Western countries?
Is it permissible for a divorced wife to take money from her ex-husband, with his consent, as compensation for her unpaid work with him for years in business in America, and would she be sinful for doing so, knowing that after the divorce, she is only entitled to what was stipulated in the marriage contract?
What is the ruling regarding a child born two days after the legitimate marriage contract, when the pregnancy occurred before the contract, and is the child attributed to his father?
What is the ruling on postponing the wedding after the husband swore "by that which is unlawful for me" that the wedding would not be postponed beyond its scheduled date, and would the oath by divorce be lifted before the scheduled date with expiation?
What is the ruling on a son beating his abusive, ill-mannered father who does not pray, does not give zakat, and blasphemes, in order to force him to marry off his sister and end his suffering with his mother and young sisters?
Is it permissible for a woman to return to her first husband, who divorced her three times, after she has married another man and engaged in sexual intercourse with him only once?
Is it necessary to divorce the wife from the first urfi marriage before the shar'i and legal marriage?
Is the marriage considered valid if the عقد (marriage contract) was concluded via a phone call between the suitor and the woman's guardian, with the wife's sisters and mother present as witnesses with the guardian, while the other witness was a man who heard the offer and acceptance over the phone but does not know the wife or her father, only having listened to the صيغة (formulaic utterance)?
Does feeling intense sadness and pain over the departure of a fiancé after the marriage contract and before the wedding deprive one of the reward of those who are patient?
How can a disobedient wife living in a Western country be divorced, given the impossibility of applying Sharia law, the fear of legal and financial repercussions, and how should the custody of the daughter be handled under these circumstances?
Is it permissible to write a contract or agreement to guarantee the rights of both parties during the engagement period, such as the suitor ensuring that the fiancée's father will not deny the engagement and marry her to another person?
Does divorce occur without the payment of the mahr, knowing that the husband has procrastinated in paying and wants the wife to seek divorce so that he does not have to pay her dues? And is it permissible to file a lawsuit against him?
Is the revocable divorce valid if the husband says to his wife, "Marry me" with the intention of taking her back, instead of saying, "I take you back" or "I have kept you"?
Is a wife obligated to inform her husband that she was previously engaged, and is her failure to do so considered grounds for divorce or for reclaiming the dowry?
What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding the marriage of a man who discovered that his fiancée, with whom he has already completed the marriage contract but has not yet consummated the marriage, doubts her virginity due to her past practice of masturbation, knowing that the man desires her to be a virgin?