Marriage Contract and Mahr
6,610 questions
Is the stepfather considered a corruptor (mukhabbib)? Is the woman sinful for seeking a divorce from her first husband? Is her second marriage valid? Is what her children did considered disobedience to parents (ʿuqūq)? Is the mother sinful?
Is a woman's marriage invalid if her guardian was her maternal uncle, despite the presence of her brother who did not object, due to the absence of the father whom she only saw once?
Is it permissible to give Zakat on money to help a poor girl with her marriage expenses, knowing that the poor may be excessive in their marriage requirements?
Is it permissible for a married woman to move in and live with her husband immediately after the marriage contract (aqd al-qiran) and before the official wedding ceremony, despite her mother's objection to that?
Is it permissible for a customary marriage to take place without the father's knowledge, and is it permissible to swear by triple divorce upon the wife in a customary contract without the father's knowledge of the marriage, considering that the wife is a virgin and under eighteen years of age?
Is it obligatory to only follow the fatwas of the Shafi'i school regarding the non-occurrence of divorce, and is it permissible not to follow the fatwas concerning the non-occurrence of divorce from a single school or a single scholar?
Is it permissible for me to take the deferred dowry from my husband while I know that it is ill-gotten wealth?
What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding a mother's 'urfi marriage to a man without witnesses, and to what extent are the children sinful who used abusive language toward their mother after discovering this marriage?
What is the jurisprudential ruling and the correct solution regarding the husband's demand for half the dower or the full dower in exchange for divorce or annulment (khul') before consummation, and what are the wife's material rights if he divorces her or she requests annulment?
Is it permissible for a man to divorce his wife for apostatizing from the religion, raising her voice at him and hitting him, and her frequent departures from the home without his knowledge under the pretext of taking her mother somewhere?
What is the ruling regarding a wife who left her first husband without his permission and successively married two other men, then left them as well? Is she considered an adulteress, an apostate, or an unbeliever, and therefore divorced from her first husband even though he did not divorce her? And how can the first husband release her from his marital bond?
Is it permissible to perform a marriage contract with the intention mentioned in the question – for the purpose of making the relationship permissible and being able to communicate with the girl without feeling guilty – knowing that it is not possible to meet her currently, and will the doer of that be rewarded for his intention?
What type of dissolution of marriage is this in Egyptian law – is it khul' or talaq – and what are the financial rights of the wife after the dissolution of the marriage in return for compensation to the husband?
Is it wrong to ask a wife who was not a virgin and who communicated with young men after marriage to waive her deferred dower (mu’akhar), and would divorcing her after she waives it be a sin, and is it obligatory to spend on her if she remains in her family's home and does not waive the deferred dower, and is it obligatory to pay the deferred dower estimated at 10,000 dollars upon divorcing her?
Is it permissible for one of a girl's brothers to solemnize her marriage contract—after her eldest brother refused to do so to appease his mother—knowing that all her brothers are mature and qualified to solemnize the contract, and can the contract be completed by phone, or is a proxy required?
How does a wife return her dowry to her husband if he requests khulʿ, when her dowry was his teaching her surahs from the Noble Qur’an?
Is the wife required to agree to an undertaking to provide a list of her dowry (jahaaz) as a condition for returning to her husband's home after previous disputes, especially after she signed a trust receipt (eesal amana) to affirm her love?
Is it permissible to speak with unbelieving women for the purpose of inviting them to Islam, and to promise them marriage if they embrace Islam, and to joke with them to win their affection, and to look at their faces and hair without lustful desire?
Is it permissible for the wife to demand the dowry amount agreed upon in the contract ($20,000) if she had waived or forfeited it according to the custom of her country, and received gold, money, and clothes of a lesser value?
What should I do about my daughter who got married without a guardian or her family's knowledge, to a man who was previously imprisoned for a drug-related offense, and she is now seeking a divorce from him which he is refusing, while all family members reject this marriage?
Is a marriage contract valid if the suitor was married to the girl's maternal uncle instead of her adult brother due to the brother not possessing an ID card, given that the girl's father and paternal grandfather are deceased?
Is it valid for a marriage to take place with the testimony of four women, in the absence of the wife's guardian (wali) and her father, based on the assumption that the testimony of two women is equivalent to that of one man? And what are the consequences if the marriage is invalid?
Is 'iddah obligatory for a woman who was irrevocably divorced without having been touched for two years prior to the divorce, and is it permissible for her to marry customarily after two months from the divorce in the presence of her guardian?
What is the ruling on the permissibility of the "list" (qāʾimah) in marriage conditions, and does it substitute for the mahr (dower), and what should be written in it?