Can any one explain me in detail about meher or mohoor rakam ? is it like alimony or some thing else? is there any specific amount for that? Who has to pay mohoor rakam, bride or groom?
What is the importance of mohoor rakam? any hadis or farman or anecdotes or books (according to our religion) related to mohoor rakam?
What is Meher Rakam (some amount decided during wedding)?
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shiraz.virani
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Mehr is the amount of money paid by the groom to the bride at the time of marriage which she can spend as and how she wants in case
1] If her hubby dies
2] Going through a divorce
3] Other emergency
Mehr is a promise given by the groom to the bride either at the time of marriage of after....This amount is given directly to the bride [and not to her mother, father or any other relative]
It need not necessarily have to be money....sometimes bride and groom agree to share business, property, housing merchandise, gold etc etc
However this is not a dowry as dowry is usually given by the bride's family to the Groom
4:4 And give unto the women (whom ye marry) free gift of their marriage portions; but if they of their own accord remit unto you a part thereof, then ye are welcome to absorb it (in your wealth).
4:20 But if ye decide to take one wife in place of another, even if ye had given the latter a whole treasure for dower take not the least bit of it back: would ye take it by slander and a manifest wrong?
2:236 There is no blame on you if you divorce women without touching them until their mehr is fixed. Give them something they will benefit from. The wealthy according to his means and the straitened in circumstances according to his means, provision them if you want to behave respecting the good. This is a duty on the good-doers.
The Prophet[saw] gave each of his wives a payment of mahr, ranging from token sums, the granting of freedom from slavery when being made a wife, to the payment of 400-500 dirhams. His wife Umm Habibah's mahr consisted of 4000 dirhams, this sum having been fixed by Najashi, the Negus (a Christian ruler) of Abyssinia. (Abu Dawud, Kitab an-Nikah, 2:235).
In one famous case, the second Caliph, H.Umar[RA] , once gave a public sermon in which he asked the congregation to refrain from fixing heavy mahrs, and stated that the Prophet had declared no-one should give more than 400 dirhams. A woman immediately stood up and challenged him, quoting the verse 4:20 from the Qur'an: 'But if you decide to take a wife in place of another, even if you had given the first a heap of gold (quintar) for a dowry, you shall not take the least bit back.' Umar went back to the minbar and withdrew his words stating 'the woman is right, and Umar is wrong. Whoever wishes may give as much property as he wishes to give.' (Ibn Hajar al-Athqalani, Fath al-Bari, 9:167).
1] If her hubby dies
2] Going through a divorce
3] Other emergency
Mehr is a promise given by the groom to the bride either at the time of marriage of after....This amount is given directly to the bride [and not to her mother, father or any other relative]
It need not necessarily have to be money....sometimes bride and groom agree to share business, property, housing merchandise, gold etc etc
However this is not a dowry as dowry is usually given by the bride's family to the Groom
4:4 And give unto the women (whom ye marry) free gift of their marriage portions; but if they of their own accord remit unto you a part thereof, then ye are welcome to absorb it (in your wealth).
4:20 But if ye decide to take one wife in place of another, even if ye had given the latter a whole treasure for dower take not the least bit of it back: would ye take it by slander and a manifest wrong?
2:236 There is no blame on you if you divorce women without touching them until their mehr is fixed. Give them something they will benefit from. The wealthy according to his means and the straitened in circumstances according to his means, provision them if you want to behave respecting the good. This is a duty on the good-doers.
The Prophet[saw] gave each of his wives a payment of mahr, ranging from token sums, the granting of freedom from slavery when being made a wife, to the payment of 400-500 dirhams. His wife Umm Habibah's mahr consisted of 4000 dirhams, this sum having been fixed by Najashi, the Negus (a Christian ruler) of Abyssinia. (Abu Dawud, Kitab an-Nikah, 2:235).
In one famous case, the second Caliph, H.Umar[RA] , once gave a public sermon in which he asked the congregation to refrain from fixing heavy mahrs, and stated that the Prophet had declared no-one should give more than 400 dirhams. A woman immediately stood up and challenged him, quoting the verse 4:20 from the Qur'an: 'But if you decide to take a wife in place of another, even if you had given the first a heap of gold (quintar) for a dowry, you shall not take the least bit back.' Umar went back to the minbar and withdrew his words stating 'the woman is right, and Umar is wrong. Whoever wishes may give as much property as he wishes to give.' (Ibn Hajar al-Athqalani, Fath al-Bari, 9:167).