Dowry

Question A suitor gave his fiancée’s family money so that she could buy several grams of gold as agreed upon at the time of engagement, and this gold was to be a mahr given in advance two years before doing the marriage contract; it was not a gift. Then the …

Question I am a young Egyptian man who is about to get married. We have a bad custom in Egypt which is called al-qa’imah (the list), where the list is made of everything that the husband and wife have bought, and if the husband divorces his wife, he returns to …

Question A man did the Islamic marriage contract, without doing the official civil contract. Shortly after doing the marriage contract, some troubles occurred, so the man decided to divorce her for some reason. What are the Islamic rulings that result from this divorce? Please note that he did not specify …

Question When I got married, a list of movable items was written as the first part of the dowry, half of which was gold that was actually bought, and the other half is furniture that was not actually bought. This is exactly the same as my sister’s dowry, but what …