Woman in Islamic Shari‘ah
6. The Rights of Husband and Wife
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2:178). Similarly, as a
hadith
tells us, if a man kills a
woman, after the crime is proved, “Verily the man
will be killed for having killed a woman.”
107
There is no legal discrimination in the eyes of the
shari’ah
between woman and man. The laws
applicable to men are also applicable to women.
106. Qur’an, 4:34.
107. Bukhari,
Sahih, Kitab ad-Diyat,
(
Fath al-Bari,
12/180).
DOWER
After
nikah
the first obligation upon a man in regard
to his wife is to give her the
mahr
fixed at the time of
marriage:
And give the women (on marriage) their
dower as a free gift.
108
The
mahr
is in no way a payment for conjugal
rights. Conjugal rights are far too precious to be
equated with what is normally given as mahr. The
amount of mahr is, in actual fact, a token sum of
money, which symbolizes, in material form, the
