Marriages in Indo/Pak are unaffordable

With fabulous Mahr, pompous Jahaiz, exuberant warri/barri, processions of barat, feasts of waleema, band- baja, tale mehnd and many other customs, the marriages have become almost unaffordable. Unless our scholars, social reformers, religious practitioners , human right activists think of a viable alternative, the coming generation will resort to western style of sexual satisfaction and we will have no alternative but to compromise.

The only essentials of Muslim marriage are the public acceptance of each other and payment of Mahr by the bridegroom according to his means to defray marriage expenses. Tale/mehndi, Jahaiz and Bari have no traces in Islam. The marriage of Hadrat Ali® is illustrious of Islamic way of marriage. ( No tale mehndi, No Jahaiz, No barri, No barat . The exalted prophet married his daughter to his cousin and separated them with a few items of daily use)

The concept of Barat was added to it for security and transportation of valuables comprising Jahaiz and barri carried to places far apart and waleema was introduced to make public the event of marriage. Barat no more serve this purpose as after the feast no one except father of the bride groom is present on the scene and for public announcement the marriage can take place in a mosque or a video should be enough. Waleema today is political concert for politician and a business meeting for the entrepreneurs. Poor man is ruined for what? Instead of barring dishes we better revert to the Islamic way of marriage and cut short to Nikah in a mosque.