Advice to Those Who Exaggerate in Bridal Gifts

Question:
A listener named Awadh from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan asks and says: What is your opinion, Your Eminence, regarding those who exaggerate in bridal gifts? Is this part of Islam? And what is your advice to those who do this? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
My advice to my brothers everywhere is not to exaggerate in bridal gifts, but to be lenient and make things easy, as in the hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: and he married a woman to a man on the condition that he teach her from the Qur'an, and he said: Seek even if it is just an iron ring. So the Sunnah is ... regarding bridal gifts, and not to be overly burdensome; so that marriage becomes more common, and so that spinsterhood decreases, for men need marriage, and women need marriage.
So what is prescribed for the guardians, and for the women, is leniency in bridal gifts. The woman should be lenient, her mother should be lenient, and her father likewise. The advice for everyone is leniency, and not being overly burdensome in bridal gifts, nor in the accessories of bridal gifts such as wedding feasts and the like, as much as possible. So the advice is leniency in that, and easing off in that according to one's ability. Yes.

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