Under the two disciples' approach, interdiction of an improvident person's financial acts does not necessarily invalidate his marriage. Marriage concerns fundamental personal needs and is treated differently from ordinary commercial disposal.
Two questions must be distinguished: whether the marriage is valid and whether every part of the specified financial undertaking—its dower—binds the estate. An affirmative answer to the first does not automatically make an extravagant financial specification fully effective. The text therefore addresses the dower separately.
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Validity of marriage by an interdicted safih
Kitab al-Hajr: Improvidence, Legal Restriction, and the Age of 25
Under the two disciples' approach, interdiction of an improvident person's financial acts does not necessarily invalidate his marriage. Marriage concerns fundamental personal needs and is treated differently from ordinary commercial disposal.
Two questions must be distinguished: whether the marriage is valid and whether every part of the specified financial undertaking—its dower—binds the estate. An affirmative answer to the first does not automatically make an extravagant financial specification fully effective. The text therefore addresses the dower separately.