{"id":6686,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/delay-in-determining-the-mahr\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:20:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:20:51","slug":"delay-in-determining-the-mahr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/delay-in-determining-the-mahr\/","title":{"rendered":"Delay In Determining The Mahr"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I am planning to get married to a lady. She is keen on the <em>nikah<\/em> but is delaying the <em>mahr<\/em>. We are planning for the two families of ours to meet each other for the <em>nikah<\/em> but she is placing a lot of emphasis on the <em>Waleemah nikah<\/em> when she will announce the <em>mahr<\/em> after which she wants the marriage to be consummated. Is this allowed for her to delay the announcement of the <em>mahr<\/em> to me in order to postpone consummation?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>The Holy Qur&#8217;an expressly allows delay in defining the <em>mahr<\/em> amount. However, it does not restrict the couple to enter into sexual relations before deciding the amount of <em>mahr<\/em>. <em>Mahr<\/em> can be decided later on but marriage can be consummated earlier. This too is based on express directives of Islam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-24<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6686\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am planning to get married to a lady. She is keen on the <em>nikah<\/em> but is delaying the <em>mahr<\/em>. We are planning for the two families of ours to meet each other for the <em>nikah<\/em> but she is placing a lot of emphasis on the <em>Waleemah nikah<\/em> when she will announce the <em>mahr<\/em> after which she wants the marriage to be consummated. Is this allowed for her to delay the announcement of the <em>mahr<\/em> to me in order to postpone consummation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1162],"tags":[2234,1168,1188,2396],"class_list":["post-6686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-issues","tag-mahr","tag-marriage","tag-nikah","tag-sexual-intercourse"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Delay In Determining The Mahr - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/delay-in-determining-the-mahr\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Delay In Determining The Mahr - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am planning to get married to a lady. 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