Comments on: Mass wedding in Pakistan protests dowry tradition

By: zareen

zareen — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:08:53 +0000

dowry death are form of domestic violence which caused by only greed. this practic perceived girl to be burden on their family and boy to be blessing. it cause endless poverty to that family who have more then 2 girls in their family. almost this horrific custom should be abolished.

By: sumaira

sumaira — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 07:07:05 +0000

dowry is a curse.i simply hate families who ask for dowry.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a real shame that weddings have turned into a form of racketeering in Pakistan. Of course, we don’t have dowries in America but we do have a similiar, if much milder, situation involving the escalating costs of getting married and having a wedding.

By: Anna in Cairo

Anna in Cairo — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The dowry practice in Islam, as the article sort of correctly states, is for the man to give a financial or in-kind gift to the woman which becomes her property. The marriage contract often stipulates that half is given at marriage and half would be given on the event of a divorce, the rationale being that in Islamic law men have such freedom to divorce whenever they want for whatever reason it was thought that women should have some sort of financial guarantees. Of course like all traditions that originally had some sort of understandable (in context) rationale it has become a harmful practice in many ways, but I would still argue that as a practice it is less harmful to women specifically than the opposite practice in most other traditions of the dowry being paid from the bride’s family to the groom’s family. For those interested in the traditional views of marriage by medieval Islamic jurists (whose writings are the basis for modern Islamic law and theory) I urge them to read Kecia Ali’s article on marriage in the book “Progressive Muslims” edited by Omid Safi. There is also a really interesting article on homosexuality and Islamic law by Scott Kugle in the same book.

By: zamzam

zamzam — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

masha allah sister i agree with you. we all need to anderstan muslim traditiona.jazaka laahu khayr sister.

thank u. salamu Alaykum

By: Rakhshinda

Rakhshinda — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In Pakistan I noticed that dowry has yet to be recognized as a gender issue. Activists have almost forgotten it.
I initiated an advocacy project Fight Against Dowry with volunteers. Regretfully International Donor Agencies ( i won`t name them) declined to fund.However, I am keeping the project alive with the help of some volunteers.