Stipulating the Receipt of Money in Marriage

Question

An adult unmarried young man wishes to contract marriage (‘aqd) with a girl, but his father refused the marriage there because some disagreement arose, although earlier he himself had arranged the match there. He made an arrangement at another place, where a promise was made to give the young man eight thousand rupees. The young man rejected those eight thousand rupees and married at the first place of his own will, while his father, because of his insistence and obstinacy, became displeased.

Answer

Making eight thousand rupees a condition for the young man’s marriage is wrong and impermissible, and there is no obedience to the father in an impermissible matter. If the young man married on his own in order to avoid this wrongful money, he has not become disobedient: [ar]لَا طَاعَةَ لِمَخْلُوقٍ فِي مَعْصِيَةِ الْخَالِقِ[/ar] “There is no obedience to a creature in…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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