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Please advise me islamic point of view on following matter Giving gold ornaments to girl at the time of engagement of marriage Consider it has serious and urgent.

 

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Answer:

 

Give gold to bride

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 4 Surah Nisaa verse 4:

4        And give the women (bride) their dower (mehr) as a free gift; but if they of their own good pleasure remit any part of it to you, take it and enjoy it with good cheer.

 

One of the absolutely obligatory conditions of a marriage in Islam is that the groom has to give his bride a ‘mehr’ (gift) as demanded by the bride before the ‘nikaah’…..the ‘mehr’ in Islam can be whatever gift the bride is satisfied with; it can be as little as a pair of sandals or as much as a whole treasure of gold or even more!

 

The ‘engagement’ to marry has absolutely no legal status in Shariah Law.  Although there is absolutely no obligation upon the groom or his family to gift gold ornaments to the bride at the time of ‘engagement’, if the groom or his family wishes to gift the bride (or anyone else for that matter) some gold ornaments (or anything else) of their own accord, there is absolutely no harm.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone.  Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

Burhan