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In Islam, nikah (Arabic: نِكَاح, romanized: nikāḥ) is a contract exclusively between a man and woman. Both the groom and the bride are to consent to the marriage of their own free wills. Both the groom and the bride are to consent to the marriage of their own free wills.
A bride signing the nikah nama (marriage contract). An Islamic marriage contract is considered an integral part of an Islamic marriage, and outlines the rights and responsibilities of the husband and wife or other parties involved in marriage proceedings under Sharia. Whether it is considered a formal, binding contract depends on the jurisdiction.
The Nikah (نِكاح) is the formal marriage ceremony where a marriage contract, or Nikahnama [10] (نکاح نامہ), is signed by both the bride and the groom in presence of close family members. The Nikah is typically performed by a religious scholar at a mosque, such as an imam , mufti , sheikh or mullah , who in Pakistan will be licensed ...
Walima (Arabic: وليمة, romanized: Walīma) is the second of the two parts of an Islamic wedding It is the wedding reception banquet and is performed after the nikah (marriage ceremony). It designates a feast in Arabic.
The blueprint is the same as the Middle-Eastern Nikah, [29] a pattern seen in marriage ceremonies of Sunnis. [30] Traditional Muslim Indian wedding celebrations typically last for three days. [ 29 ] Prior to the observance of the wedding ceremony proper, two separate pre-wedding rituals, which involve traditional dancing and singing, occurs in ...
Nikah halala (Urdu: نکاح حلالہ), also known as tahleel marriage, [1] is a practice in which a woman, after being divorced by her husband by triple talaq, marries another man, consummates the marriage, and gets divorced again in order to be able to remarry her former husband. [2]
This is known as tahlil or nikah halala. Making the third pronouncement irrevocable prevents the husband from using repeated declarations and revocations of divorce as a means of pressuring his wife into making financial concessions in order to "purchase her freedom". [24] It also acts as a deterrent to rash repudiations. [23]
The Sheikh of al-Azhar mosque, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi and theologian Yusuf Al-Qaradawi note in their writings and in their lectures that a major proportion of the few men who take a spouse in the framework of the misyar marriage are men who are married or women who are either divorced, widowed or beyond the customary marriage age. [2]