How the Groom Is Treated on Arriving at His In-Laws

Question

When the young man goes to his in-laws, he is immediately taken to the girl’s house, and there too kissing takes place; his sisters-in-law and others give the young man sherbet to drink, in which there is a strong presumption of leech water (?) and the like; all the women sing songs in which the young man’s mother and father, grandfather and grandmother and others are also showered with many insults; and in front of all the people at the gathering the young man’s clothes from his own home are all taken off and he…

Answer

This too should be stopped.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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