الأفراح والأحزان في حمص ٤_a .. كتاب حمص

When the groom passes by his mother during the session, he says to her: “O Yamo, let us go on our journey.” So she hugs him to her chest and says: “I am holding you tight, my son, and you are bursting into tears, and they do not separate him from her except after a lot of effort.” In the evening, young men from the groom’s friends and relatives gather to introduce the groom to the bride and chant Harouba:

During the wedding week, the bride is deaf and mute and does not eat or drink except a small amount of vows and after she is sworn to the faith. She must not speak, for she lost a ring. She does not say that she lost it, but rather points with her hand to her finger, so they understand that she lost a ring, so they search for it. Therefore, if one of them is found at a feast, and she is slow in eating it and small in her bite, they say to her: “Are you eating like brides?”

Family and friends of both parties, and the newlyweds go, after the wreath, in a car to spend their honeymoon.

This is a picture of what used to happen at grandparents’ weddings. Do the grandchildren enjoy their weddings when they were devoid of much of what the grandparents’ weddings were full of??!! The week of joy that followed the wedding was the week of /blessing/that is, congratulations, whether among Christians or Muslims, and social traditions in terms of the third, the man’s rose, and the lesson is the same for everyone. Here it is necessary to refer to lambs, which is a quantity of raw materials such as rice, ghee, meat, or sugar, carried by the groom’s relatives and friends to help him with the wedding expenses. These lambs are considered a legal debt owed by the addressee. He must return them on the same occasion in which they were given to him. The difference in the price of the item often leads to quarrels between the creditor and the debtor. The development that has occurred in it is that it has become a gift given to the groom to help him complete the preparations of his house. It can be either money, a dozen wicker chairs, a rug, a fan, a refrigerator, etc.

Here we must take a moment to point out the content of the dowry: The dowry consisted of three basic elements: the immediate dowry, the deferred dowry, and furnishings for the house. The immediate dowry was what was paid in advance and in cash to prepare the bride, and the deferred dowry was what was paid to the wife in the event of her divorce from her husband or in the event of his death. Nothing is considered a dowry. It is usually given as gifts and gifts on occasions, and there is no legal limit to the value of the dowry, as it is subject to what is agreed upon between the groom’s family and the bride’s family, and therefore it is governed by the customs and traditions followed in every time and in every situation.

The marriage of Khalid bin Saadullah bin Salih Hussam al-Din to Nabiha bint Hafez Ibn Salih al-Jandali, concluded on 18/1332 AH. The first spring of her immediate dowry was fifteen thousand gurshs accepted, and the deferred one was five thousand gurshs, and an advance mattress worth twenty thousand gurshs, at the option of the fiancée, either in cash or Certain items worth the aforementioned amount.

In the Qur’an, Mahmoud bin Muhammad al-Yassin bin al-Hajj Hussein Mandu, from the people of al-Hamidiyah in Homs, pays Fatima bint Abd al-Khaliq bin al-Haj Amin al-Najjar as al-Mu’jil / 1,500 / grush, and Al-Muajil / 500 / five hundred gursh, and the mattresses, three nosh and three quilts stuffed with wool, worth / 800, gersh. Two wool pillows worth 50 gursh and home furniture worth 290 gursh: the value of all is 1140 gursh. The marriage contract took place on Shaaban 6, 1300 AH = April 14, 1883 AD.

In the lawsuit filed by Fatima Bint Ahmad Al-Hamwi, a resident of the Bab Al-Sabaa locality, in Homs, against Mazhar bin Khadr bin Assam, a resident of the village of Al-Rabi’ah, on 13 Rabi’ Al-Thani 1331 AH = 22 March 1913 AD, she claimed that a marriage contract had been concluded over a period of approximately one and a half years for Mazhar. The aforementioned payment is for an advance dowry of 2000 gersh, a deferred dowry of 750 gersh, and three mattresses filled with wool worth 400 gersh, three wool quilts worth 300 gersh, two wool pillows for sleeping at 80 gersh, and ten straw pillows with Dima faces for 150 gersh. A wool rug for 200 piasters, a full mirror for 100 piasters, a bowl and a jug for 50 piasters, a sabbath box for 40 piasters, and a complete set with 10 piasters, so the whole thing becomes 1430 piasters.