Mahr

The dower (Arabic المهر, DMG al - mahr ) is still in the Orient usual and no way be equated with a bride price, which the woman "bought" is, or with the dowry ( donation of money or goods of the groom to the bride ). The dowry is the bride not remunerated, her father. In most cases, a wedding gift of a material nature, but it may also have a sentimental value. The dowry is used to prevent against a " hasty " divorce on the part of the man, as well as providing financial security of women, such as in the case of divorce.

There are according to Islamic law that is according to the so-called Islamic rule two forms of al - mahr:

• Al - mahr moadschel (Arabic المهر مؤجل, dower later or latent '): This gift (land, jewelry ) must be handed over to the wife in case of divorce or death of the spouse.
• Al - mahr moadschal (Arabic المهر معجل, dower immediately or at any time '): This gift ( goods, property ) must be the wife at marriage or at any time thereafter be handed over, the wife she may request at any time. This form is also referred to as a Mahr Mahr Moqadam e. This is about a kind of maintenance and care.

What the culture and tradition of about seven wedding celebrations or ceremonies anbelangen, dowry in Arab -Islamic but also in the Indo - Iranian- Islamic cultures, including all the countries of Central Asia and Northern India is ( since 1947 also Pakistan) as Jehaz al Aross (Arabic جهاز العروس, DMG dowry of the bride) called. Various gifts the bride receives from her parents' house and that in the morning the first wedding night or henna night. This " dowry " is a kind of dowry within the meaning of the German culture. In Iranian culture Jehaz is called Jaziya or Mehriya. The bride and the groom is called Aross Damad or Shah.

Shir Baha (Persian for price of milk, possibly price of breastfeeding ), Toijana ( Pashto ) and Walwar ( Pashto ) are terms for wedding, which will be handed by the groom to the father of the bride. Such funds are prohibited under Islamic law. These outputs are, for example, to justice in Europe and of women used in Afghanistan as the purchase price bride price bride price. Mahr is more comparable with the care, pension, retirement or marriage contract. In the Islamic countries that have systems of social security, both forms of Mahr are more symbolically considered, this setting is part of the script of the wedding ceremony and often set with three pieces of gold or according to three dinars from the time of the beginnings of the Islamic religion. It should be noted that in various cultures, especially non-Arab Islamic countries, the dowry is not worn by the groom's family, but by the bride's family.

The great German translator of the Koran, for example, Friedrich Rückert and Joseph von Hammer- Purgstall have Al Mahr translated into German as dower or dowry or dowry etc.. In fact, Mahr is fixed before the Neka ( Islamic wedding ceremony is usually in the afternoon before henna night ) from the attorney of the bride with the father or uncle of the groom. Part of the money ( property, land, but also gold ), the bride at any time require the other part only in the divorce or death of the Gattens.

Islam grants Muslim women the right to demand of her prospective husband this dowry, their height, they may determine and freely concerning the allowance feature ( Qur'an 4:4 ) itself:

" And give the women their dower as a free gift ( so that they can dispose of it )! But if they voluntarily leave you some of it, you can consume it safely ( for yourselves ). "

The woman should be based on the financial situation of the man. Even in the case of divorce, the husband has no right to reclaim the dowry ( Quran 2:229 ):

" The dismissal (with the right to take back the woman) is twice ( allowed). Then (the women are either ) in legal way to keep ( to ) or enter in an orderly fashion free ( to ). And it is not lawful for you ( in the latter case ) to take some of what you have (previously as a wedding gift ) given to them ( back to you) - except when both fear that they which (in terms of marriage Community ) commandments of Allah will not comply. If it is to be feared that the two (in the case of the maintenance of the marriage community) the commandments of Allah be unable to comply, it is no sin for them if the woman ransoms herself with a certain amount. These are the commandments of Allah. Transgress not in it! Those who transgress, are the ( true ) wrong-doers. "