This wedding ppt shows everything you need to know in a wedding and what rights to do women have over men

1. Marriage in Islam
By: Daniyal Munir

2. Introduction
• In times past, women were considered little
more than property owned by their husbands.
What legal rights a woman had were confined
to those allowed her by her husband. Today the
law is quite different. While neither a husband
nor a wife is granted superior legal rights, a
wife has specific legal rights protected by a
multitude of laws. While the specifics of what
rights you have often differ based on what state
you live in, your rights as a married woman are
protected in all states.

3. What is Marriage?
• In Islam, marriage is a legal contract between two
people. The bride is to consent to the marriage of
her own free will. A formal, binding contract is
considered integral to a religiously valid Islamic
marriage, and outlines the rights and
responsibilities of the groom and bride. There must
be two Muslim witnesses of the marriage contract.
Divorce is permitted and can be initiated by either
party. The actual rules of marriage and divorce
(often part of Personal Status Laws) can differ
widely from country to country, based on codified

4. • In Islam, marriage is not compulsory and a
Muslim has the right to live a single life if he or
she wishes to. One example is Prophet Isa, who
neither married nor had any children. However,
marriage is an act of Sunnah in Islam and is
highly recommended.

5. Women Rights in Marriage
• SEC 1. A married woman may bargain,
sell, assign and transfer her separate
personal property, and carry on any trade
or business, and perform any labor or
services on her sole and separate account,
and the earnings of any married woman,
from her trade, business, labor or services,
shall be her sole and separate property,
and may be used or invested by her in her

6. •SEC. 2, At the decease of
husband or wife, leaving no
minor child or children, the
survivor shall hold, possess and
enjoy a life estate in one-third
of all the real estate of which
the husband or wife died seized.

7. •SEC. 3. Every married
woman is hereby constituted
and declared to be the joint
guardian of her children, with
her husband, with equal
powers, rights and duties in
regard to them, with the

8. • SEC. 4. Any married woman
possessed of real estate as her
separate property may bargain, sell
and convey such property, and enter
into any contract in reference to the
same, but no such conveyance or
contract shall be valid without the
assent in writing of her husband,
except as hereinafter provided.

9. • SEC. 5. At the decease of the
husband or wife intestate, leaving
minor child or children, the survivor
shall hold, possess and enjoy all the
real estate of which the husband or
wife died seized, and all the rents,
issues and profits thereof during the
minority of the youngest child, and
one-third thereof during his or her

10. Conclusion
• These are only some of the basic duties of the
wife in Islam. The state of marriage is part of
one's adherence to the Sunna and an exalted
state of life indeed. In the words of the
Prophet (s), it permits one to meet Allah
"pure and cleansed" . One's behavior towards
one's wife is the measure of the perfection of
one's belief as the Prophet (s) said: "The most
complete of the believers in his belief is he who
perfects his manners, and the best of you in
manners are those who act best towards their

11. • ." Marriage must be approached with utmost
seriousness, entered with the purest intent, and
cultivated religiously as it does not come
cheaply and it carries immense reward. The
Prophet (s) called it "his way" and "half of
religion" and he also said: "Two rak`at of the
married person are better than seventy rak`at
of the unmarried." He also warned that among
the greatest of responsibilities that had been
placed upon men is that pertaining to the
treatment of their wives.