Re: Rishta Demands
Exactly. That was my understanding and I wanted to verify it. So, for girls who are asking for exorbitant mehr…keep in mind that if your marriage doesn’t turn out well and you decidedly want “out”…which is a khulla…then you have to return that exorbitant mehr to your ex husband…unless he forgives it. That can be quite the predicament if wife ain’t workin’…or don’t earn enough…and if her folks won’t or can’t help her. Even if the law of the land doesn’t support this ruling and the court cuts her a break…well, she will then have it upon her conscience that an Islamic ruling was not followed. All boils down to one admonition: Exercise the haq mehr right that Islam grants you but with decency and within reason…factor your own socioeconomic status and that of the guy’s and the khulla consequences in the equation.