jurisprudential-legal studies on changing the dowry after marriage

Dowry is one of the characteristics of the Islamic legal system and a branch of marriage. Contrary to the earlier view of jurisprudence, which has considered the maximum applicable equivalent to Mehr al-Sunnah, that is, five hundred dirhams, and the well-known view of jurists who consider a small dowry good, heavy dowries have become commonplace and are becoming a phenomenon whose existence requires its absence. This is happening while Iranian law has remained silent in this regard and has left the matter to the concurrence of the parties, which may have been created by a misunderstanding of the ruling of verse 24 of Surah An-Nisa 'in the Holy Quran which does not set a ceiling for dowry. In the present study, we have dealt with the issue of what is the ruling on increasing the dowry after marriage, which we have finally concluded that changing the dowry after marriage is not jurisprudentially and legally correct, and increasing the amount of dowry after determining Has not been allowed.