Investigating the Status of Heavy Marriage portion from the Viewpoint of Verses and Narrations

Marriage portion (Mehriyeh), as one of the wife's financial rights in Islam, has a special place and importance. The Holy Quran calls marriage portion as “Sidaq”, “Nahleh”, etc., and Nahleh is the sign of the integrity of a man to a woman in a marriage contract. The Imamiyyah jurisprudence has not set a limit for it and its amount has been agreed upon by the parties. In recent years, changing the system of values, norms, beliefs, and so on has led to a significant increase in it. This increase has caused problems in the functioning of the family, the community and so on. The main question of this study is what is the position of heavy marriage portion in religious teaching? The results indicate that although Islam has not set a limit for it, setting heavy marriage portion is at least considered disapproved. Wisdom behind this disapproving is perhaps the negative outcome and social consequences of heavy marriage portion on the individual and society. Jurisprudents have also encouraged Muslims to set not much for marriage portion and have warned about taking a heavy marriage portion.