5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

A person who gets married should do so with the intention of
protecting himself from fornication, from looking at harâms. He
should make his niyyat (intention) to raise sâlih children, to
contribute to the multiplication Muhammad’s ‘alaihis-salâm’
Ummat, and to adapt himself to his Sunnat in nikâh. To attempt
to hoard property through harâm, and to adduce one’s
household as an excuse for this illegitimate way of earning,
betrays the fact that one has not made one’s nikâh compatibly
with the Sunnat.
The nikâh called Mut’a or Muwaqqat (temporary) is harâm
in all the four Madh-habs. The nikâh of Mut’a means to enter
into a temporary cohabitation agreement with a woman by
paying her a certain amount of money without any witnesses. It
is written in the books Mîzân-ul-kubrâ and Ibni Âbidîn that the
nikâh of Mut’a is harâm and that the report stating that “Imâm-i-
Mâlik said that it was permissible” should be wrong. As for the
nikâh that is called Muwaqqat (temporary); it is a kind of nikâh
performed in compliance with all its conditions except that
divorce after a certain period of time, (be it a hundred years
later), has been stipulated as a condition, (which makes the
nikâh null and void). If a person only passes through his heart
(the thought that he is going to divorce his wife later) without
transferring his thought into words, his nikâh will be sahîh.
If a woman who has no male relatives to accompany her in
her travel for hajj marries a man going on hajj so that she can
go on hajj with him and then gets divorced from him, their
marriage is harâm because it is temporary. On the other hand, it
is harâm for women to go on hajj alone. It is not permissible for
a woman to go on a three days’ travel without one of her
eternally mahram relatives or her husband to accompany her.
According to a report coming from Imâm-i-a’zam Abû Hanîfa
and Imâm-i-Abû Yûsuf ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ alaihimâ’, it is
makrûh for a free woman (a woman who is not a slave) to go on
a day’s travel without her mahram relative. It is written in the
fifth volume of Fatâwâ-yi-Hindiyya that when the distance is
shorter than a day’s walk she can go without any of her mahram
relatives provided she will be among sâlih men.
It is stated in Uqûd-ud-durriyya, “It is sahîh to demand to
be taught (how to read) Qur’ân al-kerîm as the mahr. For it is
permissible to make mahr from something for which payment is
permissible. When a person sends his wife something in
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