Question Summary: Who is responsible for dowry and wedding costs? Question Detail:
Who is responsible for the dowry and the wedding costs? If the bride refuses to consummate marriage who is responsible for the dowry and wedding costs? The bride refused to let her husband touch her for two months. He tried but she did not let him. Her father took her away from her husband’s house still a virgin.
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
In principle, the payment of the dowry is the sole responsibility of the husband.[i] Dowry becomes binding by the contracting of nikah itself. Please elaborate on the wedding costs you are referring to. And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best Mawlana Faraz Ibn Adam,
Student Darul Iftaa
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[i] اعلم أن المهر يجب على الزوج للزوجة شرعا بمجرد العقد (الأحكام الشرعية في الأحوال الشخصية ج1 ص195 دار السلام)
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