Mahr definition

Mahr which means a mandatory required amount of money which paid by the groom to the bride before the ceremony of wedding. In other words, the meaning of „Mahr‟ or زٍم in Arabic is the amount of payment which is have to be paid by the man to his wife before ceremonies, in contrast with the word dowry in English, which required the payment to be done by woman to her husband. So the use of the word „dowry‟ in the English system is not an equivalent term for the word „Mahr”.In the Arabic or Islamic system, in fact, the most familiar way of translating the Arabic term زٍم is to keep it as it is transcribing it in Arabic „Mahr‟.

Mahr means mas kahwin which is something compulsory given by a husband to his wife by reason of solemnization in accordance with Hukum Syara’;