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One has a say in what should happen in it besides her.

It should be paid, it is payable.

If someone doesn't pay it, she does have the right to get that marriage at some point

nullified.

If that's what she wants.

Now what we need to realize is there are certain people who follow cultures and traditions

beyond that.

So anything that's coming from the bride to the groom is actually a cultural or a traditional

thing.

What some cultures have done, they've made it so difficult for people to get married

that they ask the bride's father to give a lot of money or a lot of things to the groom

and they call it a dowry.

Islamically that is not something taught by the Quran or the Sunnah or the practice of

the Prophet ﷺ or the Sahaba or the earliest generations may Allah be pleased with them.

So remember that what is taught by the Quran and Sunnah is that the male has to give

the female.

The groom has to give the bride an amount which is known as the Mar.

It will be determined by the bride's family and she is owed it, Subhanallah.

She is owed that.

And mostly it is paid at the time of the Nikah or the officiation of the marriage.

At times it is agreed that part payment will be later.

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