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المملكة: The high cost of dowries and the costs of marriage … a crisis that has worn society for 60 years


This is not the first time that a newspaper has opened "today" File The high cost of dowries and The costs of marriage , but rather a new episode in a long series of press efforts that extend over more than 60 years, during which the newspaper fought the battle of awareness and advice, and revealed with evidence, positions and living stories about the roots of this phenomenon and its social, psychological and economic complications. "today "Her first shouts in the face of these exhausting habits, stressing that it is not a numbers crisis as much as it is a crisis of concepts and visions, and since then she did not stop holding the reality, and confronting the heritage that imposes on young people to refer joy to a burden, and stability to debt. "today" The campaign now is because there was always that it monitors, reveals and calls for rationality and return to the spirit of Sharia and the reality of the times. "today "In this thorny file, and how it was a witness and active at the same time, since the dowries cost the young man a month’s salary, until he became the rest of his back."Text-Align: Jusify"> March 28, 1965
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In the door "Question and opinion" And under the title "What do you think of treating the problem of high dowries?" Spread "today" An article written by Amin Shanar, an article that touched on the reasons for this problem, trying to put solutions to it, so he wrote: "Those who think that the high cost of dowries is the problem are wrong, the problem is deeper and more comprehensive, it is the problem of not providing opportunities for equal selection, and the lack of fields For happy marriage , the seeds of the problem grows in another level, deeper and more comprehensive than just the high cost of dowries. To transcend it to achieve psychological and living stability, and he continued: The tributaries of society are not soon to provide the new six components that make his misery or happiness. These tributaries come from a place. A certain one crucible, as the people of one society should be." target ="_Blank"> Psychological stability. Road Marriage Do we reduce dowries? Or do we work to build a new society?

July 26, 1965
"Debt" Marital life spoils

in an article entitled "About the high cost of dowries" Ahmed Hassan Takla asserts that the effects of the high dowries do not stop at the pre -marriage period, but rather extend to the later, and turn life to "Misery and unhappy" He writes, quoting young people who cut him with his suffering with "Dowry" What made him borrow in the form of (my imagination) to be married, and he says: The marriage ended with his joys and happy nights to start the nights of misery and unhappiness, not with my wife, but with the price that I paid a dowry for her, so I sold the precious and precious until the contents of the house to pay the accumulated debts, and I do not think that imagination can imagine my financial condition after I lost the most precious and most valuable I have to satisfy a ridiculous work and material will". And its center, which religion is satisfied with this? Let us return to Islam and look at his opinion, the explicit right of the dowry and its position on our painful reality in these days. Open your eyes, fathers and your insights, as you have committed against the right of our society"

October 16, 1977
official and social solutions

and in the door "After the greeting" Entitled "Update dowries and the decision of the bodies" Ahmed Al -Shammar is concerned with his speech to the eastern region, especially Dammam, Saihat and Al -Khobar, and he writes: Until recently, the dowry of marriage costs in the eastern region was, especially mentioning in that Dammam, Saihat, Qatif and other aspects of the cities and villages of this region, until that time the dowry for those who want to marry did not exceed 8 or 10 thousand riyals in the worst conditions, for these reasons the region was the focus of the attention of others from other areas in And their generosity, but what soon is the wheel of time and overthrow all the broad Arab Arab values and customs to the foot or change everything, and make it just names and sayings that you do not find someone who is working to translate into meanings and actions. That greed and greed, and this came in the crowds of justifications that have no first nor another. Otherwise, looking in terms of generating money only. For the true value of this dowry, hence we may say that the phenomenon of escalation and rise in dowries that have spread in the region in need of extensive efforts and continuous campaigns by religious and Islamic bodies and all relevant authorities in the country with the aim of spreading direct awareness to urge parents towards adhering to the cilia of human and Islamic values, and digesting legal concepts on which the basis of the Islamic principle of the age and approval of the dowries. Style ="Text-Align: Jusify"> October 13, 1985
A positive and dowry model 500 riyals

It was not satisfied (today) to refute the problem, but was keen to highlight the positive models that rejected this phenomenon, opened the title "Only 500 riyals is a dowry for a 17 -year -old girl in Jubail"She recounted a story of the father of Musa Abdullah Al -Balawi from the city of Jubail, and she wrote: Because he wants to make his daughter happy and draw the path of goodness for her without trading in her, he decided to marry her from a young educated with a dowry of only 500 riyals, as he says that he is the Spanish of that, because he bought the man, his knowledge and culture, and not his financial position or bargaining to pay. His daughter to an educated young man just returned from abroad, carrying his testimony with him, all he possesses is his ambition, knowledge and desire to associate with a girl in this country sharing his life and contributing with him to build this good country. She was not 17 years old without any costs in marriage or aspects that may be a cheek and exhausting at the same time on the spouses. "If you give to you who you are satisfied with his religion"

December 16, 1985
dowries between extravagance and love of appearance

in the development of the method of addressing the problem, published "today" A prolonged achievement that approximates the full page of the problem of pre -marriage burdens, "Especially dowries"And under the title "The high costs of truth and imagination" The opinions of young people and fathers in Saudi society. That some young people pay and pushing to pay for fear of the people’s words and saying that he has defamed the right of his wife, in addition to exhaustion and the love of appearance. One of the participants says, and she says that religion is the defamation of the sorry, and that the marriage parties have become a state of extravagance in it, so everyone is running behind false manifestations, so we must spread awareness among these people and raise the problem, and find appropriate solutions to them.

August 1, 2002
The costs of marriage between the past and the present

today reviewed the events of a seminar held by the branch of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance in Hail on the problem of marriage costs and its impact on the individual and society and its solutions, and the participants reviewed the simplicity of marriage parties in the past, stressing that the costs of marriage in the past were not transcendent "Pain" For the relatives of the bride, the neighbors of her family, and a few clothes, the wedding ceremony is held in the courtyard of the house and the Samaritan and the display are presented, and before dawn everyone disperses to their homes, as the dowries were very few due to the limited capabilities and conviction among parents and grandparents, in addition to their true understanding of the meaning of marriage. Celebrations are held in the palaces equipped to attend the largest number of invitees at very high costs, as some boast of the high value of the dowry, which leads to dumping young people in debts that reflect negatively on their lives, and perhaps we lead to divorce, as it is the reason for the spread of spinsterhood, and they recommended to provide these expenses to relieve young people.

March 15, 2003
simplicity and understanding the secret of happiness

with more details that are presented "today" The problem itself is compared "Wedding rituals and its costs from simplicity to extravagance"And confirming that the weddings of the past were enjoyable and vital, not because they were held in modest tents or homes, but rather because the people "Prey" They participate in preparing and preparing for them, there are those who cook and other things, while at the present time, either marriage is on the family at all costs, or the groom or the grooms together bear the costs of marriage, which is often in a hotel or hall of expensive costs due to manifestations and boasting of wedding parties between people. (40 thousand riyals) in addition to some contributions from the husband and the father of the bride, in addition to the network in which gold mixed with diamonds, food, singing band, dress and photography, which costs a lot of money. They have to hold these parties and spend tens of thousands in one night? They want to seek the wedding of their two sons. In exchange for attending the newlyweds late at night, what prevents them from enjoying the ceremony. The images are not a memory because it was acting and stagnant, so if some people reconsider the reformulation of social relations in a way that allows the individual to share with others the joys in another way, such as singing and congratulations and the connection of social relations, and wiping the wrong image that was drawn to weddings as calls for dinner only. And joy and simplicity, and the extravagance, manufacture and exaggeration are away from it.

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