Demanding the Dowry
Issue No. 2069- If at the time of reciting the marriage formula for a permanent marriage no time is fixed for the payment of mahr, the wife may demand her mahr immediately; she can even prevent her husband from sexual intercourse before receiving the mahr, whether the husband is capable to pay it or not, unless his not being able to pay the mahr at the time of recitation of formula indicates that the mahr had been a non-immediate debt on him from the beginning, and not an immediate debt.
