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So in that case, no guardian was required. The wife, might receive
a gift from the husband as a'price for her consent. - "It was a
marriage that no one need know anything about. The children, in
that case would be considered legitimate, but they would keep
their mother0a name because "they might not see their father
again. " 1
It was a purely temporary marriage and the contract
specified for how long it should hold.
2
At the end of the
specific period, both of them'were free to do-whatever they wanted.
In fact, "Nawawi says that no right of inheritance followed from
Mutla marriage. "
3
Islam condemns it and makes'it "the'sister of harlotry. "
because it does not give the husbandýthe-legitimate offspring.
It is not really's marriage, but-a"sexual'relationship between a man
and a woman-for a period of time. There is' evidence* that, this * kind of
Altogether different
marriage existed in pre-Islamic Arabia. /is-the
story of Salama
bint Amr who promised that she would not be married to any one-
except on condition that she should be her own mistress and-separate
from him'when she pleased. - 6 Another story, which contained-the same
conditions was the story of Uam IM; rija. a woman who contracted-
marriages in more than twenty, tribes, and is represented as living
among her sons, who'therefore had not followed their respective
fathers.
71
In'general. - this'kind did not give the Arabian woman-any rights
as a wife. because-it was a purely temporary'marriage, without any
dowry or ceremony and there was nothing to protect the wife's rights*_
1. See IA171,, op* cit,, Vol. 4, PýM7
2. See Levy, op. cit., P. 115
3. Smith, op. cit., P. 85
4, Ibid,
5. Ibid
6. Ibid
7. Ibid
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