Re: HaqMehar
Yes that’s how you write Haq Mehar but that’s now how you **write **“write”.
Coming back to your point, I got married last year and the Imam said that Shray’ee (Average according to Islam in old days) in today’s dollar amount is around US $1,200. If one can, he can give $1,200 or $120,000, whatever he can afford. If one doesn’t have money, it can be ANYTHING that he wishes to give. I believe there are hadeeths that prove this.
Also, it should be given as soon as possible (because the man has to give it before he dies, and you never know when one will dide), so do it as soon as possible. The wife can either demand to have it in full/half/whatever before she “gives” herself to her husband or she can forgo it. Her choice but the man must offer it. What happens in Pakistan these days where parents come in and demand 1 house, car, and hundreds of thousands rupees in mehar (“security”), that’s just wrong. It is strictly between the husband and the wife. No one has the right to even make suggestions, let alone ASK for it.