Mahr

Q: Rs500 was given to a woman as her meher. What should she do with it after a divorce? Can she use it or must she give it to any poor person?

Q: I want to ask about mahr. Does the entire amount of the mahr have to be paid on the very first night of the wedding or can some be paid on the wedding night and the rest will be paid later?

Q: If a wife demands for haq mehr and husband did not deny to give it to her but because of financial reasons or any other reason did not give her the haq mehr, does this invalidate their nikah ?

Q: It will be 1 year in May since I done my nikah. During this time my husband still has not given me my Mahr. We both live in different city's but he travels every weekend to spend some time with me. During this whole time he has not provided anything for me e.He has never bought me anything since we have been married and I have bought him endless things and also borrowed him money which I have asked back for. He still hasn't given it back. He owns his own business so he is not short of money. It really upsets me that it's going to be almost 1 year and he still hasn't given me my mahr. Please advice me on what I should do?

Q: I gave divorced to my wife after four months of nikah without consummating the nikaah? How much mahr should be paid to her?

Q: What is the Shar'ee haq-e-mehr on marriage?

Q: Please clarify in the light of Qur'an and Hadith. A girl got married and the next day of her arrival in her husband's house, she was found guilty of immortality and the fact was proven that she had illegal sexual intercourse with may boy friends. After having proof her husband gave her divorce and the girl went to her parents house. Now what should the boy have to return to her in addition to her mahar? Should the jewelry they gave her at the time of marriage be given back to her or not? Jewelry is with the boy. The girl didn't take anything except her clothes and simple jewellery which she wears daily.

Q: A boy is getting married. Although he is not wealthy, he pays zakaat. Does he pay mahr-e-faatimi or the minimum mahr?

Q: When my father proposed to my mother, he dedicated Surah Al-Imran, which he memorized off heart, as her “Mahr” (dowry). And when my husband proposed to me, my father told him that he would have to memorize a Surah of the Quran as my mahr. The wedding will not go on unless I’ve received my mahr I was asked to pick one of the surahs. I chose Surah Al-Noor. For all the laws that Surah contained within it and for the fact that it seemed hard to memorize on my behalf. And before our wedding day; aside of being busy preparing for our “Newly wedded Nest”, the Quran wouldn’t leave my husband’s hand an entire month as he was memorizing the Surah. A few day before our wedding day, my husband came to recite to my father the Surah which he had completed. My father told him every time you make a mistake, you would have to start from the beginning all over again. My husband began reciting Surah Al-Noor with his calm/gentle voice in such a “beautiful” scene which I will never forget. My mother and I would look at one another and would smile awaiting my husband to make a mistake so he would have to start all over again and by that increase my “Reward”. But my husband – May Allah bless him – had memorized the Surah off heart and didn’t even forget one single verse of it. Once he finished my father hugged him and said to him: “Today I shall marry my daughter to you, for you have fulfilled her mahr and your pledge to me..” He didn’t pay me a financial mahr, and we didn’t buy gold worth tens of thousands. He sufficed me with Allah’s words as an oath/contract between us.

Regarding the story above, is this type of mahr accepted in Islam?

Q: Who asks for the dowry, the bride or the parents? If dowry is the right of the bride, can the parents disagree with her if she accepts less mahr?