Muslim Marriages
There
are lots of Muslim communities living in this world and the marriage tradition
in Muslims varies with community to community. This piece of writing is about
the Muslim marriage culture and customs exists in the Muslims communities while
performing their marriage events. Muslim marriages are also called Islamic
weddings where the customs are traditions and practices that relate to wedding
ceremonies and marriage rituals prevailing within the Muslim world. The wedding
participants in these weddings are usually belongs to communities of people who
have Islam as their faith.
Following are few important terms use in Muslim weddings:
Muslim wedding- Nikah:
In Muslim wedding, Nikah has a very special attention and considered as one of the key event in the entire wedding function. The 'Nikah' is basically an Urdu word for marriage is a grand event celebrated over a five day period replete with rituals and customs. The best thing about Muslim wedding can be performed at any time of the day and there is no such thing as 'special time' or 'muhurat'. The Nikah event usually takes place at the home of bride. A special character is involved in this whole process and usually arranged by the bride’s family called “Nikah Khawan”. Nikah khawan recite some Holly verses of Quran Pak and then they ask both bride and groom to agree with each other and say yes means “Qabool hay” three times. These days wedding ceremonies are conducted at marriage halls to save bride and groom’s time and marriage arrangement.
Muslim wedding- Rukhsati/Barat:
Rukhsati is also an important part of Muslim weddings in which groom take bride with him after the completion of Nikah along by completing some formalities required at Rukhsati. It’s also called departure of bride and groom towards their actual living and towards new beautiful life.Usually in Asia Rukhsati event is also famous with the name of Barat where groom and his family come and receive a grand part to receive the bride with full respect. The whole event of Rukhsati usually organizes by the parents or family member of bride. After the completion of different Rukhsati traditions, bride’s family serves the special food to the all wedding participants. In Islam it is very clear that the bride’s family is not liable to give their daughter dowry. Therefore, in most of the Muslim marriages dowry is considered as a forbidden act (mamnoa).
Muslim wedding- Walima:
In Muslim weddings another special event is involved which is also called the ending ceremony known as Walima. In walima you need to be very careful for the arrangement of your special participants. Walima is the Sunnah of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Sallala-ho Alaehe-Wasallam). According to Islam when two people get married then they should have to invite their guests to the walima. This is a kind of special thanks to Allah for the blessed and beautiful occasion of marriage.
After reading this article, hopefully many of us will be aware that how marriages in Islam are taken place.