Chapter: The Dower (Ṣadaq)

• It is recommended that the dower be modest and that it be explicitly stated in the contract, ideally between four hundred and five hundred dirhams.

• Anything that can lawfully serve as a purchase price or a wage may likewise serve as a dower, however small the amount.

• If the husband designates the teaching of the Quran as her dower, the stipulation is invalid; teaching her a specified portion of jurisprudence, literature, or permissible, well-defined poetry, however, is valid.

• If he sets as her dower the divorce of her co-wife, the stipulation is void, and she is entitled instead to the customary dower of women of her standing.

• Whenever the named dower is invalid, a substitute equal to the customary dower becomes obligatory.