Lease Assuming the Temporary Marriage and its Jurisprudential Challenges

Imāmī jurists have considered the agreement of the couple to establish a marriage bond for a limited period as a temporary marriage and one of the types of marriage, which can be considered as a kind of contract based on the exchange of "marriage portion" for "sexual exploitation", due to the trends in some exchange rulings. The fact that "marriage portion" and "duration" are essentials in temporary marriage has caused a group of Imāmī jurists to consider it as an example of a "lease contract". Assuming a temporary marriage as rental has caused this contract to face important jurisprudential and moral challenges, such as the degradation of the status of women. The findings of this study, which was performed by analytical and descriptive methods and based on library sources, show that despite some apparent similarities between temporary marriage and rent in some elements and rulings, the nature of temporary marriage is the couple's agreement on married life in a certain period and there is no exchange between the sexual productivity of the wife for the payment of the marriage portion by the husband for a certain period of time.