THE RIGHTS OF HUSBAND AND WIFE

6. The Rights of Husband and Wife ~ 127 ~ 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