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1. The [[mahr]] or bride price. | 1. The [[mahr]] or bride price. | ||
2. Two adult male witnesses | 2. Two adult male witnesses (at least) | ||
3. A verbal offer and acceptance of the marriage | 3. A verbal offer and acceptance of the marriage | ||
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4. The consent of both married parties (and the woman's wali/guardian, usually her father) | 4. The consent of both married parties (and the woman's wali/guardian, usually her father) | ||
The marriage | The marriage provides the following rights to the woman from them man: | ||
1. The mahr, which cannot be retained by the man even after divorce or taken from her | 1. The mahr, which cannot be retained by the man even after divorce or taken from her | ||
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==Controversies== | ==Controversies== | ||
The misyar marriage has been the cause of many controversies on the societal scale and for individual famous Muslims. | |||
The misyar marriage has been accused by social conservatives of spreading sexual promiscuity and loose morality in Mulim societies. Feminists and social conservatives have accused misyar of cause the mistreatment of women and the abondonment of the children resulting from such couplings. For this reason, although they acknowledge that the misyar is, as far a jurisprudence goes, an allowable form of Islamic marriage, many Islamic scholars and sheikhs such as ibn Baz and Qardawi have ruled it invalid due to the social harms it causes. | |||
In 2025, the promminent Islamic [[da'i|dawa]] Mohammad Hijab was accused by an anonymous woman of engaging in a misyar "sex marriage" where she was mistreated, used for sex, abused, and cut off from her family and friends. She acussed Mohammad Hijab of telling her to act "like his girlfriend", giving her a McDonald's meal for a mahr, hiding the marriage from her father (she had no wali/guardian when she was married, which is considered illegitimate in most schools of Islamic law but is allowed by the Hanafis for all forms of marriage), and of gas lighting her and threatening her with social ostracization should she tell anyone of their arrangement. She and her father went on the record that Hijab used his knowledge of the shari'ah and his reputation to bully the woman, who is a single mother, into the marriage and to keep her in it despite her protestations and pleas for support. Hijab has responded that the misyar marriage was Islamically sound and denied all wrongdoing. | |||