By Sumaira Hamid
Marriage – the sacred union that takes place only between a man and a woman. In relation to this revered bond, there are many verses of the noble Quran and countless ahadith that encourage marriage for any single man or woman – of any age or background. This is not only limited to the young brothers and sisters who have never been married and are looking for their life mate, but even those who have been through divorce have also been encouraged to re-marry and to “complete”
“Marry the single people from among you and the righteous slaves and slave-girls. (Surah 24, Verse 32)
In this verse, Allah (SwT) commands us to marry the single, righteous man/woman from among us. Allah (SwT) even gives us a guarantee that if we are poor or lack the proper funds, still we should not delay the marriage as Allah will take care of the couple and grant them bounties from His Grace and Mercy.
It is lawful for you to marry you pay them their dowry, maintain chastity and do not commit indecency. So those (women) whom you marry you must give them their dowries
We must marry – not only the youth who are getting married for the first time – but also older people who may have divorced or lost a spouse must also marry the evil whisperings of Shaitan may penetrate a single man or woman to go towards the prohibited and thus, contaminate his or her faith and belief.
He has created spouses for yourselves from your own selves so you might take comfort in them dowry is a pre-requisite for a marriage,is to be paid by husband to his wife, Dowry is a deep rooted social evil in our society It is the greed expectations: And makes whole society polluted
In fact a girl is responsibility for a family not a liability which can be ignored Illiteracy is a remarkable factor of this evil and makes the status of women effected Social effects makes every family to face brunt of it which promotes domestic violence and crime. The whole family comes under economical brunt and advances to heart attacks and so many deaths we neglect all when it comes our turn to demand for dowry. Lack of education leads to irresponsible decisions leading to financial exploitation
We are spending so much on uncountable dishes which cripples the sufferer if he is financially weak.
But we all waste so much food and on decorations. Where will the poor person go to fulfil these demands. So many girls who are highly qualified sitting at homes waiting for matches but being poor remain unmarried.
Is it not a biddeh in our society ? We can curb this social evil by our own society if we formulate a law and give social awareness campaigns and initiate mass media campaigning and debates and publishing in papers and journels.
Who will take this initiative just we and only our society?
Remember that dowry is to be paid by husband to his wife and not wife has to pay dowry which is practised in all Muslim countries and even in European counties but here in kashmir unfortunately the girl’s family has to pay to boy’s family
Which is a big social evil and should be stopped?
Dowry in fact means mehr which boy has to pay to girl but in our society dowry means demand which should be stopped.
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