Is My Nikah Valid If There Was Some Mispronunciation of Words?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question

My father read my Nikkah recently, Alhumdulillah! He said everything correctly.

He just made a little mistake and that is while reading out my Nikkah, he replaced the word ‘Haq mehr’ with the word ‘mublig’ as he got confused and couldn’t remember the word haq mehr at that moment but mentioned the amount correctly. The word mublig has some other meaning. Hope that is not a problem. Kindly let me know.

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

If the proposal and acceptance were made in the presence of two Muslim witnesses who listened, the marriage is valid. [Maydani, al-Lubab fi Sharh al-Kitab]

Switching the terms “Haq mehr” and “Mublig” does not affect the validity of the marriage contract.

Furthermore, the dowry amount is the agreed-upon amount and the confusion of the aforementioned words does not affect that either.

Hope this helps
Allah knows best

[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch is a teacher of Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he then completed four years at the Darul Uloom seminary in New York where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences. He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he stayed for three years studying in Dar Al-Mustafa under some of the greatest scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib. In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Qur’an and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, and a number of texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.