Re: Nikkah naama...
I'm wondering if it is possible to write on a nikkah naama that in case of divorce the wife will get **only **the mehr and will not be entitled to any percentage of other assets as per secular/state law (in the west, ofcourse)? If such a naama is signed it can become a document that can be presented in court if the wife would want more than her mehr, right?
Also, and perhaps a tangent to the above point but why don't some of our highly religous, sharia following muslims in the west only adhere to the religious nikkah ceremony and the naama as proof of marriage? Why do these couples register themselves under state law to be married? I mean western laws allow common law relationships so the government will just assume that the couple are living in common law.
And what's wrong **with **getting married under the state as well? It's not against Islam at all. It doesn't cost very much at all to get a license. If God forbid something happens to you before those 7 years (when you can be realized as a common-law marriage), then wife gets zero. Then again, that's what you want right, since you dont' want her to have anythng more to begin with :)