In Iraq .. Contract marriage with eight billion dinars

Walid al-Musalh - Baghdad

When imagination is combined with reality and becomes an unambiguous reality, then it is only reasonable to acknowledge that the pompous ponies will not only contribute to the reluctance of young people to marry, but also to abandon the whole idea.

A major controversy sparked by the leaked document from the Karkh Appeal Court in Baghdad led to a marriage contract worth eight billion dinars, the highest rate of dowry in Iraq.

The husband, who was born in 1984, signed a three-billion-dinar ($ 2,256,000) marriage contract with a delayed payment of five billion Iraqi dinars ($ 4 million, $ 210,680) to a woman born in 1986 with two children, And their care.

Attorney Rawa Salman Al-Muhammadawi criticized the circulation of this type of news on social networking sites, describing it as a negative phenomenon and the privacy of the individual.

Al-Mahamdawi said in her talk to Al-Jazeera Net, "Neither Sharia nor the law emphasized the value of ponies, but they are just worn out formalities. The marriage contract is not a contract for sale and purchase."

While social researcher Kholoud al-Shammari said that "clinging to the high prices of ponies may lead young people to deviate and conduct methods of embezzlement and theft, and increase the spinsterhood of girls, and may be emigration and marriage with foreign wives is an option for many of them."

Shock and irony
An incident that brought to mind similar incidents of dowry fever in Mesopotamia, but it was the most exaggerated and strange, which aroused the anger of the street and discontent and ignited the sites of social communication with the shock of the news or the denial and ridicule it.

"In an incident that is the first on the date of the marriage pawns, Baghdad recorded the most expensive marriage contract of five billion Iraqi dinars."

Activist Ahmed Khalil criticized the contract in his Facebook account and asked, "Where did he get the money from when he was born in 1984?"

Mehdi al-Iraqi said that these marriages are often based on interest, and that the source of money may be from the forbidden sanctity that the groom did not suffer in collecting.

"We are in a time when many of the families sleep without dinner," activist Yusuf Mohammed said in his comment on Facebook, saying the Prophet Mohammad peace be upon him "the best dowry is easier."

Ali al-Taei commented sarcastically: "The witch or Abbas announces her innocence of this contract and says that her maximum capacity does not amount to paying only 200 million!"

In the view of Ahmed al-Sayyid Iraqi that the subject does not mean only the owners, commenting in his account on Facebook, "as long as the parties are satisfied there is no need to talk too much."

Money is not a guarantee
"The humanitarian standards in building a good family are not based on material foundations, but on the respect and harmony between the spouses," said social researcher Janan Mubarak in an interview with Al Jazeera.net. "The high sums of money that bind the husband are not a measure of women's protection and a guarantee of lasting friendship with her husband."

Whatever the reasons and opinions, the phenomenon of the reluctance of young people to marry has become a concern for society in the face of widespread unemployment, lack of employment opportunities and the tendency of some families to be rich and prosperous young people, although married, on the pretext of ensuring a better future for their daughters despite the worsening divorce and separation experienced by the courts every day.