{"id":1529,"date":"2016-08-05T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T13:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2016-08-05T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T13:17:09","slug":"her-mahr-was-surah-al-noor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/05\/her-mahr-was-surah-al-noor\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Mahr Was Surah Al-Noor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hiba Ammar writes: When my father proposed to my mother, he dedicated Surah Al-Imran, which he memorized off heart, as her \u201cMahr\u201d (dowry). And when my husband proposed to me, my father told him that he would have to memorize a Surah of the Quran as my mahr. The wedding will not go on unless I\u2019ve received my mahr I was asked to pick one of the surahs. I chose Surah Al-Noor. For all the laws that Surah contained within it and for the fact that it seemed hard to memorize on my behalf.<\/p>\n<p>And before our wedding day; aside of being busy preparing for our \u201cNewly wedded Nest\u201d, the Quran wouldn\u2019t leave my husband\u2019s hand an entire month as he was memorizing the Surah.<\/p>\n<p>A few day before our wedding day, my husband came to recite to my father the Surah which he had completed. My father told him every time u make a mistake, you would have to start from the beginning all over<br \/>\nagain.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float: left;\"><span style=\"float:left; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-top: 8px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- BC300-250 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9441334350567224\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3883394805\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My husband began reciting Surah Al-Noor with his calm\/gentle voice in such a \u201cbeautiful\u201d scene which I will never forget. My mother and I would look at one another and would smile awaiting my husband to make a mistake so he would have to start all over again and by that increase my \u201cReward\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But my husband \u2013 May Allah bless him \u2013 had memorized the Surah off heart and didn\u2019t even forget one single verse of it. Once he finished my father hugged him and said to him: \u201cToday I shall marry my daughter to you, for you have fulfilled her mahr and your pledge to me..\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t pay me a financial mahr, and we didn\u2019t buy gold worth tens of thousands. He sufficed me with Allah\u2019s words as an oath\/ contract between us. And the Question is\u2026. I wonder what Surah my daughter will chose as her mahr in the future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiba Ammar writes: When my father proposed to my mother, he dedicated Surah Al-Imran, which he memorized off heart, as her \u201cMahr\u201d (dowry). And when my husband proposed to me, my father told him that he would have to memorize a Surah of the Quran as my mahr. The wedding will not go on unless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[581,710,559,560,787,789,788,234],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wedding-tips","tag-engagement","tag-islam-engagement","tag-islam-wedding","tag-islam-wedding-rites","tag-mahr","tag-surah","tag-surah-al-noor","tag-wedding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beyondchai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}