What is the wisdom behind the prohibition of shighar?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : What is the wisdom behind the prohibition of shighar? Please explain this to us.
The Shaykh : The wisdom behind the prohibition of shighar is that it is injustice to the woman, and that it opens the door to favoritism for whoever wants to marry her off while neglecting consideration of good character and religion, because he wants to satisfy his desire to marry the other woman. This is an observed reality; if shighar were made permissible, no one would marry off his daughter except to someone who agrees to marry him to his daughter, and so on.
The Shaykh : The wisdom behind the prohibition of shighar is that it is injustice to the woman, and that it opens the door to favoritism for whoever wants to marry her off while neglecting consideration of good character and religion, because he wants to satisfy his desire to marry the other woman. This is an observed reality; if shighar were made permissible, no one would marry off his daughter except to someone who agrees to marry him to his daughter, and so on.