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"Kiddi ki karftah" (Who gave? And who took?). A famous sentence related to pre-Qur'an rituals when determining dowry among Iranian families, especially by the bride's family.
It is not necessary for a bride to have a certain amount of money. The selection of dowry types is guaranteed by the Iranian civil law, provided that it is of value, called dowry, and that the judge determines its value.
Due to the large increase in dowries and the economic conditions in Iran, in recent years, strange types of dowries have spread and have raised eyebrows and ridicule, and some attributed the reason for their spread to selfishness and love of renewal among women.
The dowry or dowry is what the husband pays his wife to marry, recently he was or in advance. The legislation gave the right to determine the amount of dowry in a way that would satisfy the woman and her guardian in accordance with the bridegroom, to pay each person according to his capacity and material condition.
| Iranian bride presents Hanina in her wedding ceremony (Reuters) |
Ponies in Iran are usually based on gold coins at different rates, depending on the social class of the groom and his place of residence and traditions in general.
The impossibility of payment
However, things have changed with the divorce rate, which reached 29% of total marriages last year, making the bride and her family resort to raising the back of the ponies, with the aim of impossible to pay by the groom if he thought of divorce.
In addition to raising the value of dowry, and determine the number of gold coins according to the age of the bride; in recent years spread other types of dowry strange and wonder.
Mahnaz, a 26-year-old girl, married a young man from her city before her husband forced her to move to Tehran where he worked, making her feel alienated and alone.
And hoping to return to her city and leave the capital, I asked the court to start the procedure to get the backside, which was ten deer from the mountains of their region, according to news agency "Khirbnakaran Joan" Iran.
| An Iranian imam at a wedding ceremony (Reuters) |
In a strange incident, a girl asked her to be a kilogram of mosquito wings, and another condition stipulated her husband's eyes: "I lived in a wealthy and skilled family five thousand gold pieces, but after my sister's divorce and for fear of repeating it with me, My husband gives me his eyes with gold as a dowry for me; so to be distinguished from others. "
Another bride identified herself as a tennis player, and to show that she was not interested in material matters, she asked her husband 1978 tennis ball.
Many Iranians have asked for a strange girdle as well: the left hand of the husband, two thousand pieces of sugar, one hundred thousand liters of gasoline, 110 kilograms of jasmine blossom, traveling to 120 capitals around the world, traveling 1,000 times to Karbala, 100 paintings, the sea.
Moral paws
On the other hand, some moral and intangible pawns spread, such as memorizing Qur'aan and valuable poetry books, or planting trees and ensuring orphans.
The social expert in the fight against crimes in the Supreme Court of Albarz province, Dr. Mehdi Johari praised these types of dowry.
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"The identification of planting trees as a dowry for a girl is legal and is recorded and there is no objection to it because it is a known act of the husband, provided he undertakes to do so," Johari told the Salamat news agency.
The number of men jailed in Iran for not paying the dowry has risen to 4,500, about two months ago, according to the IRNA news agency.
Many believe that expensive ponies can not be a guarantee of a happy life or a safe haven for women that protects them from divorce. High divorce rates among the rich are compelling evidence.