Wearing a Special Necklace on the Occasion of Marriage

Question

(a) In our area everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, considers it necessary that once a girl’s nikah has been performed, she should put on her neck a lachchh (a bridal necklace ornament), which is in the shape of a necklace with very fine black beads like the beads of a rosary. Some women wear a necklace made only of these black beads, while others have a gold necklace made and place a few black beads here and there in the middle.

Answer

(a) A necklace as an ornament for adornment is permissible. The notion that a woman who has no necklace on her neck has no husband is not something of the Shari‘a. A woman’s adornment is in reality for her husband alone; if there is no necklace but there is another ornament or item of adornment, is that not a sign? Nevertheless, on account of this notion, that is (?)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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