Land Promised as Mahr Must Be Given

Question

Question: There is a widow who has three brothers-in-law living — her late husband’s elder and younger brothers. They kept trying hard to marry her, but she refused to marry. It happened that a quarter share of land was entered in her name, and she set about selling the land. When the brothers-in-law learned of this they again tried very hard for the nikah. With great difficulty she agreed to the nikah, and also said: “This is not my nikah; it is the land’s nikah.

Answer

Whatever land was fixed as mahr is also her right; giving it is lazim (binding), otherwise its evil consequence will be severe.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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