Re: Yey Quran sey shaadi kya hoti hey?
I don’t think Arabs practiced this in their society. First phase of Arab conquest went till Multan (which is now part of Punjab), so there are chances that this was also practiced in those areas as well.
The concept of Quran being Makhlooq lead to various customs in Sindhi society and I’ve observed an attitude showing reflection of this theory in Sindhi society. Like, once there was a severe storm in our hometown and people either carried Quran in their arms and chant ‘Ae Khuda tujhe iss ka wasta’ and some people just face towards Quran and chant ‘Waseela! madad farma’. They put Quran in small jhoolas on many Mazars in Sindh and Punjab and keep on swinging it like we swing our children at homes.
When you consider something as makhlooq, then you try it treat like makhlooq. Same happened with Quran. Hindus got customs of marrying their daughters temporary to trees, animals symobolically (like Aishwariya Rai was married to a tree before marrying Abhishek Bachan). This coupled with concept of Quran being makhlooq paved ways for exploitation of ladies rights. Once married to Quran (known as haq bakhshwana in local language), the girl will be bride of Quran and she lost her right to marry a man. But again with the passage of time, probably this custom ended or at least its not being reported like karo-kari and Wanni. Noor ul Huda Shah in her interview in 2000s confessed that she herself never observed such practice, though she belong to a conservative Syed family. Her depiction of the practice was based on something that reached her form her elder generation.