What is the ruling on delaying the mahr?
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The questioner : Now, if a man has, say, one hundred dinars owed to his wife... does he have to give her her right?
The Shaykh: Of course.
The questioner : If it is according to... because when he wrote it... in the past, they did not pray, meaning if they had known it would be like this, they would not have written even one lira.
The Shaykh : Why would he not write even one lira?
The questioner : ...does he know that this is according to...?
The Shaykh : Now, suppose he is righteous and knows, or he wrote one hundred dinars immediate and one thousand dinars deferred, but because of his piety, he does not agree to write a deferred amount.
The questioner: Now, will the other party accept it, or will they increase the immediate amount?
The questioner : You made one hundred dinars deferred...
The Shaykh : Answer my question now: the prevailing custom is to make the immediate amount small and the deferred amount large, is that right?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : I am saying: if one of them says that this deferred amount they take in this system has no basis in Islam.
The Shaykh: Therefore, I do not want to bind myself to a deferred amount, and I will pay one hundred immediate, and the other party, who is the girl's or woman's guardian, will complete the hundred or increase it?
The questioner : Increase it.
The Shaykh : Now, you say you did not know the ruling in this, and you also did not know that they would increase it, so you did not agree to this second ruling, do you know if they will increase it or not?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, if you want him to increase it, that is in exchange for it.
The questioner : Professor, in the same story, the father of the bride and the father of the groom agreed on a mahr of thirty thousand dinars, and when the contract was written, the father of the bride came and said: one hundred thousand dinars, the deferred amount is one hundred thousand dinars, and he was holding one thousand dinars, meaning he changed the nature of the contract before the judge, meaning in front of the people it was one hundred thousand dinars, but in reality it was one thousand dinars?
The Shaykh : Does this result in something that constitutes an aggression against the husband by imposing a new right, or is it just formal?
The questioner : Just formal, does the husband have to pay him one thousand dinars, etc.?
The Shaykh : I am telling you that something results from it, so tell me: no, it results here in something that is not a right.
The questioner : Meaning, if the wife's father says at the court that he wants one thousand dinars, does he actually get one thousand dinars?
The Shaykh : Is this injustice to the husband or not?
The questioner : Of course, it is injustice to the husband.
The Shaykh : This is what I am telling you: it is not permissible.
The Shaykh: Of course.
The questioner : If it is according to... because when he wrote it... in the past, they did not pray, meaning if they had known it would be like this, they would not have written even one lira.
The Shaykh : Why would he not write even one lira?
The questioner : ...does he know that this is according to...?
The Shaykh : Now, suppose he is righteous and knows, or he wrote one hundred dinars immediate and one thousand dinars deferred, but because of his piety, he does not agree to write a deferred amount.
The questioner: Now, will the other party accept it, or will they increase the immediate amount?
The questioner : You made one hundred dinars deferred...
The Shaykh : Answer my question now: the prevailing custom is to make the immediate amount small and the deferred amount large, is that right?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : I am saying: if one of them says that this deferred amount they take in this system has no basis in Islam.
The Shaykh: Therefore, I do not want to bind myself to a deferred amount, and I will pay one hundred immediate, and the other party, who is the girl's or woman's guardian, will complete the hundred or increase it?
The questioner : Increase it.
The Shaykh : Now, you say you did not know the ruling in this, and you also did not know that they would increase it, so you did not agree to this second ruling, do you know if they will increase it or not?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, if you want him to increase it, that is in exchange for it.
The questioner : Professor, in the same story, the father of the bride and the father of the groom agreed on a mahr of thirty thousand dinars, and when the contract was written, the father of the bride came and said: one hundred thousand dinars, the deferred amount is one hundred thousand dinars, and he was holding one thousand dinars, meaning he changed the nature of the contract before the judge, meaning in front of the people it was one hundred thousand dinars, but in reality it was one thousand dinars?
The Shaykh : Does this result in something that constitutes an aggression against the husband by imposing a new right, or is it just formal?
The questioner : Just formal, does the husband have to pay him one thousand dinars, etc.?
The Shaykh : I am telling you that something results from it, so tell me: no, it results here in something that is not a right.
The questioner : Meaning, if the wife's father says at the court that he wants one thousand dinars, does he actually get one thousand dinars?
The Shaykh : Is this injustice to the husband or not?
The questioner : Of course, it is injustice to the husband.
The Shaykh : This is what I am telling you: it is not permissible.
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