Marriage Contract and Mahr
6,610 questions
What should I do in this situation, and what is the Sharia ruling on retrieving gifts and the financial amount, if I withdraw from the engagement due to the girl enrolling in university to complete her studies against our prior agreement, and under duress from her father?
Who is the guardian (wali) of a female student residing in Europe: is it her full brother or her elder paternal half-brother? Is it permissible for her to marry the brother of her sister's husband despite her fear of potential problems? Is she entitled to determine and facilitate her dowry? Is it her right to stipulate that the suitor be a memorizer of the Qur’an?
What is the Islamic ruling on marrying a Hindu woman who outwardly embraced Islam, but then it became clear that she did not embrace it wholeheartedly and still practices her religion, given the understanding between them, the difficulty of divorce, and the desire to continue trying to convince her of Islam?
Does an agreement between the spouses not to have a physical relationship at all after marriage invalidate the marriage contract?
Is a husband sinful if he stipulates to his second wife that he will not spend the night with her and that her maintenance (nafaqa) will be less than that of the first wife, even with his attempts to please her and visit her during the day, especially since she accepted these conditions?
Is it permissible for a man to stipulate that a woman waive her right to khul‘ in exchange for marrying her?
Did divorce occur due to anger and misunderstanding when he said, "Upon me be divorce from you if you say what happened," and then, "I divorce you," knowing that the intention was not divorce? And can the husband take his wife back after this incident?
What is the ruling on marrying a Muslim Shiite girl who does not hold many of the extremist Shiite beliefs, given that the questioner is Sunni?
Should a prospective wife be informed that one's current job is temporary and non-renewable?
Are a man and a woman considered a married couple Islamically merely by their mutual agreement to marry and each saying to the other: "You are my wife/husband before Allah/for the rest of my life," prior to the completion of the Islamic marriage contract?
Since the deferred dowry is considered a debt, is it better to pay it as soon as one is able, to avoid dying while indebted, even if no specific payment time was set? And is it necessary to change the paid amount from deferred to prompt in the marriage contract, or is it sufficient to document this and have it witnessed, even if the payment is made in installments?
Is the Hadith in Abi Dawood's Book of Nikah (Hadith No. 2126), which narrates the marriage of a man from the Ansar to a virgin woman whom he found pregnant, and the subsequent saying of the Prophet (PBUH): "She is entitled to the dowry for what you have made lawful of her private parts, and the child is your slave. If she gives birth — Al-Hasan said: then flog her; and Ibn Abi Al-Sari said: then flog them, or he said: then apply the prescribed punishment to them" authentic or weak? If it is weak, what is the reason for its weakness, and what is the ruling derived from it?
Is a marriage valid, in Sharia, if it was conducted under the guardianship of a Muslim man chosen by the girl due to her father's obstruction, knowing that the father was unaware of it, and the marriage contract was later renewed under his guardianship?
Is it permissible to borrow from one's fiancée to complete the dowry amount and repay her after marriage?
Does the joking and saying "I agree" with a colleague on the metro, in the presence of a religious scholar, count as a valid marriage contract, knowing that I suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder and did not intend marriage with these words?
Is it permissible to supplicate for the annulment of a marriage after the عقد (marriage contract has been concluded), and what is the way to regain closeness to Allah after feeling that prayers for choosing a life partner have not been answered?
Is the presence of the groom and bride a condition for their marriage to be blessed?
Is it permissible for a man to see something of his fiancée's body online after the marriage contract (aqd al-qiran) but before consummation (dukhul)?
Does a husband's taking back his wife after a divorce that was not consummated, and two months after the divorce, require a new contract and a new dower, or is it sufficient for the husband to take her back?
Does absentmindedness during the recitation of the marriage formula affect the validity of the contract, and does signing the written contract take the place of the formula?
Is the aforementioned 'Urfi marriage considered valid, with a child born within two years, despite the absence of a Sharia-compliant صيغة (formula/wording) in the written contract and in the presence of family and witnesses?
Is it permissible for the mother to be her son's agent in marriage and to marry him off?
Is a woman who was divorced before consummation obligated to inform her new suitor of her divorce, especially given that not informing him might lead to the marriage being finalized?
Is the marriage valid if I marry a girl who was born out of wedlock, and her guardian is a center director and not a mosque imam, knowing that the guardian is not from the girl's original country? And must the guardian be the director of an institution approved by the democratic government? And what are the consequences for me if the marriage is invalid?