Nikah Islam me ek muqaddas meesaq (ahad o paiman) aur Sarwar-e-Kainat Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa ﷺ ki azeem sunnat hai jo do khandanon ko aapas me jodhti hai aur muashray ko be-hayaee se bacha kar paakiza banati hai. Aaj ke daur me ghair-sharai rusoomat, fuzool-kharchi, jahez ke mutalibat aur be-ja dikhaway ne is aasan aur ba-barkat sunnat ko intehai mushkil bana diya hai. Is tehqeeqi mazmoon me hum Fiqh-e-Hanafi ke mutabiq Nikah ke arkan, sharait, Ijaab o Qubool, Mahar ki sharai hesiyat, Masnoon Khutba-e-Nikah aur sunnat tareeqay ka jaiza lenge.
1. Nikah Sunnat Tareeqa Khutba Ka Sharai o Lughwi Mafhoom
Deen-e-Islam ek mukammal zaabta-e-hayat hai jo aqaaid, ibadaat, mamlaat aur akhlaqiyyat me poori insaniyat ki hidayat farmata hai. Jab hum nikah sunnat tareeqa khutba ki sharai hesiyat ka jaiza lete hain, to ye baat nihayat wazeh ho kar samne aati hai ke Aslaf-e-Saliheen, Aimma-e-Mujtahideen, aur Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat ke jumhoor ulema ne hamesha is amar ko Quran-o-Sunnah ki asoolon par parkha hai.
Lughwi aitibar se is lafz ke maani paakizgi, itaat, tabedaari aur haq par qayam rehne ke aate hain. Istilah-e-shariat me iska maqsad banday ko uske Khaliq-o-Malik se jodhna aur Nabi-e-Kareem, Rahmatul-lil-Aalameen Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa ﷺ ke naqsh-e-qadam par chalana hai.
Hanafi Fiqh ke azeem ulema—jinke sarbarah Imam-e-Azam Abu Hanifa Nu’man bin Thabit (R.A.) hain—ne hamesha nusoos-e-shariah (Quran aur Sunnah) ke ma-baad usool aur qawaid ko samne rakh kar har maslay ki tahqeeq farmai hai. Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat ka tareeqa hamesha aitedal, aman aur adab-e-risalat par mabni raha hai. Isme na to kutto-nifaq ki gunjaish hai aur na hi kisi qism ki ghulo aur bidat-e-dalalah ki.
2. Aayaat-e-Quraniyyah se Qat’i Dalaail o Barahin
Allah Tabarak wa Ta’ala ne Kalam-e-Majeed me is ahem mauzoo par wazeh hidayat ata farmai hai. Surah mubarakah me irshad-e-bari ta’ala hota hai:
فَانكِحُوا مَا طَابَ لَكُم مِّنَ النِّسَاءِ مَثْنَىٰ وَثُلَاثَ وَرُبَاعَ ۖ فَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تَعْدِلُوا فَوَاحِدَةً
Fankihoo maa taaba lakum minan nisaaa’i masnaa wa sulaasa wa rubaa’a fa in khiftum allaa ta’diloo fawaahidatan
“To nikah me lao jo auratein tumhein pasand aayin do do, teen teen, chaar chaar; lekin agar tumhe andesha ho ke barabari na kar sakoge to sirf ek hi kafi hai. (Surah An-Nisa: 3)”
Is aayat se nikah ka sharai hukm saabit hota hai. Islam ne insani fitrat ki paakizgi ke liye nikah ko zariya banaya aur adal o insaf ko qayam rakhne ka sakht hukm diya.
Tafseer-e-Kabeer me Imam Fakhruddin Razi aur Tafseer Kanz al-Iman me Aala Hazrat Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi is aayat-e-mubaraka ke taht farmate hain ke Allah Ta’ala ke har hukum me hikmaton ke khazane poshida hain. Momin ka kirdar ye hona chahiye ke wo kalam-e-ilahi ke aage sar-e-tasleem kham kare aur uski hidayat ko apni amali zindagi me dhal le.
3. Ahadith-e-Nabawiyyah aur Asaar-e-Sahaba
Huzoor Sarwar-e-Kawnain, Janab-e-Ahmad-e-Mujtaba ﷺ ke aqwal aur af’aal deen ka doosra bunyadi sarchashma hain. Hadeeth-e-Mubaraka me aata hai:
النِّكَاحُ مِنْ سُنَّتِي فَمَنْ لَمْ يَعْمَلْ بِسُنَّتِي فَلَيْسَ مِنِّي
Tarjuma: “Nikah meri sunnat hai, aur jo meri sunnat par amal na kare wo mujh se nahi.”
— Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith 1846; Sahih Bukhari, Hadith 5063
Huzoor ﷺ ne rahbaniyat (tark-e-dunya karke shadi na karna) ki muzammat farmai aur nojawanon ko naseehat ki ke jo shadi ki istita’at rakhta ho wo foran nikah kare kyunke ye nigah ko jhukata hai aur sharamgah ki hifazat karta hai.
Sahaba-e-Kiram Ridwanullahi Ta’ala Alaihim Ajmaeen ne is farman-e-nabawi par jis tarah amali pehra diya, wo tareekh ka sunehri baab hai. Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq, Hazrat Umar Farooq, Hazrat Usman Ghani aur Hazrat Ali Al-Murtaza (R.A.) ne hamesha is baare me aitedal aur sunnat ka daman thama rakha.
4. Aimma-e-Kiram aur Maslak-e-Aala Hazrat ki Roshni me Fiqhi Tehqeeq
Sadrush Shariah Bahar-e-Shariat (Hissa 7: Kitab-un-Nikah) me farmate hain ke sabse zyada barkat wala nikah wo hai jisme kharch kam se kam aur sadgi zyada se zyada ho. Aala Hazrat ne Fatawa Razawiyyah me Mahar-e-Mithl aur Mahar-e-Fatimi ki sharai hesiyat ko khoob wazeh kiya. Mahar-e-Fatimi taqreeban 131 tola chandi banta hai.
Mujaddid-e-Deen-o-Millat, Imam-e-Ahle-Sunnat Aala Hazrat Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (Rahmatullahi Alayh) ne apni azeem-ush-shan tasneef Fatawa Razawiyyah me is maslay par be-misaal tehqeeq farmai hai. Aap farmate hain ke Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat ka rasta wahi hai jispar Sahaba-e-Kiram, Tabi’een, Taba Tabi’een aur Aimma-e-Arba’a (Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik, Imam Shafi’i, Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal) gamzan rahay. Deen me kisi bhi naye aqeeday ya man-marzi ki taweel ki koi gunjaish nahi hai. Har amal aur aqeeday ko nusoos-e-qat’iyyah ki roshni me samjhna zaroori hai.
Sadrush Shariah Allama Hakeem Muhammad Amjad Ali Azmi (R.A.) apni shohra-e-aafaq kitab Bahar-e-Shariat me farmate hain ke shariat-e-mutahharah ke ahkam do qism ke hain: Aqaid aur Mamlaat/Ibadaat. Aqaid me shak o shubhat se imaan me khalal waqe hota hai, jabki fiqh me Aslaf ki taqleed insan ko bhatakne se mehfooz rakhti hai. Ahle Sunnat ka sarmaya-e-iftikhar yahi hai ke unka silsila-e-ilm bila-fasl Sarwar-e-Kainat ﷺ tak pohanchta hai.

5. Masnoon Khutba-e-Nikah aur Sharai Marahil
1. Masnoon Khutba: Nikah se pehle aalim-e-deen ‘Alhamdulillah’ se shuru hone wala masnoon khutba padhein jisme 3 quranic aayats (Surah Aal-e-Imran: 102, Surah An-Nisa: 1, Surah Al-Ahzab: 70-71) ki tilawat ki jaati hai.
2. Ijaab o Qubool: Dulha aur dulhan (ya unke wakeel) gawahon ke samne sarahat ke sath ‘Maine qubool kiya’ kahein.
3. Mahar ki Adaigi: Mahar aurat ka sharai haq hai jo shohar par farz hai. Kam az kam sharai mahar 10 dirham (taqreeban 31 gram chandi) hai, aur behtar ye hai ke Mahar-e-Fatimi baandhein aur naqad ada karein.
4. Mubarakbaad ki Masnoon Dua: Huzoor ﷺ ne farmaya: ‘Baarakallahu laka wa baaraka ‘alayka wa jama’a baynakuma fee khayr’ (Allah tumhe barkat de aur tum par barkat nazil kare aur tum dono ko khair par jama farmaye).
5. Walima ki Sunnat: Nikah ke agle din doston aur azizon ko khana khilana walima kehlata hai jo sunnat hai, magar isme ghareebon ko nazar-andaz karke sirf ameeron ko bulana qabeeh hai.
6. Sunnat Nikah vs Aaj Kal ki Ghair-Sharai Rusoomat
| Aitibar | Sunnat-e-Nabawi ke Mutabiq | Ghair-Sharai Rasm o Riwaj |
|---|---|---|
| Maqam | Masjid me sadgi ke sath | Mehenge marriage halls, DJ aur be-adabi |
| Jahez | Larki ke baap par koi mutaliba nahi | Bhari jahez aur gaadi ka mutaliba |
| Mahar | Shohar khushi se naqad ada kare | Mahar ko sirf kaghaz par likh kar bhool jana |
| Walima | Ghareeb o ameer sab shamil hon | Sirf VIPs ki daawat, ghareebon ki behurmati |
| Ikhtilat | Mard o aurat ka mukammal sharai parda | Makhlut mehfil, be-parda dance |
7. Ahem Masail aur Ghalat-Fehmiyon ka Azala
Muashray me nikah sunnat tareeqa khutba ke hawale se jo ghalat-fehmiyan aur ifrat-o-tafreet paayi jaati hai, uska mustanad ilmi jawab darj zail hai:
- Jahez mangna ladke ka haq hai: Jahez mangna shariat me haraam aur zulm hai; larki ko uske baap ki taraf se tohfa alag baat hai.
- Nikah ke waqt larki ka samne baithna zaroori hai: Larki apne parde me baith kar apne sharai wakeel ko ijazat de sakti hai.
- Mahar bakhshwana zaroori rasam hai: Mahar biwi ka haq hai, shohar ko chahiye ke wo khushi se ada kare na ke zabardasti bakhshwaye.
8. Amali Zindagi me Nafaz (Practical Guidelines)
Har musalman ko chahiye ke wo darj zail amoor par pabandi ke sath amal kare taake uski amali zindagi me sunnat ka noor shamil ho sake:
- Sadgi Ikhtiyar Karein: Rasoolullah ﷺ ki beti Sayyidatun Nisa Hazrat Fatima Zahra ki shadi ki sadgi ko namoona banayein.
- Mahar Foran Dein: Rukhsati se pehle ya usi waqt mahar ada karein.
- Jahez ki La’nat ka Khatma: Jahez lene aur dene ke khilaf muashray me aagahi paida karein.
- Khandan me Deendari Dekhein: Sirf doli ya daulat na dekhein balki deen aur sharif khandani ikhlaq dekhein.
- Walima me Ghareebon ko Bulayein: Apne gao aur mohallay ke yateemon aur fuqara ko walime me izzat se bitha kar khilayein.
9. Roohani Fawaid aur Tazkiyah-e-Nafs
Nisf (aadha) imaan ki takmeel, gunahon se hifazat, aulad-e-saliha ki nemat aur ghar me sukoot o chain.
Sultan-ul-Awliya, Huzoor Ghaus-e-Azam Sayyiduna Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani (R.A.) apni shandar tasneef Al-Fath ar-Rabbani aur Ghunyat-ut-Talibeen me irshad farmate hain ke jab tak banda apne zahir ko shariat ke taabay aur batin ko ikhlas o hubb-e-ilahi se aaraasta na kare, tab tak haqeeqat-e-roohaniyat haasil nahi ho sakti. Shariat zahir ka husn hai aur Tareeqat batin ki taharat hai. Dono ek doosre ke laazoom hain.
Hujjat-ul-Islam Imam Muhammad Ghazali (R.A.) Ihya Ulum al-Din me irshad farmate hain ke momin ka har fail (chahe wo ibadat ho, zikr ho, ya dunya-wi kashmakash) agar niyat-e-saliha ke sath kiya jaye to wo ibadat ban jata hai. Dil ki paakizgi, bughz o keena se nijaat aur khuloos-e-niyat hi roohani kamyabi ki azeem kunji hai.
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11. Aksar Poochhe Jane Wale Sawalat (FAQs)
Nikah ke liye kitne gawah shart hain?
Do musalman mard ya ek mard aur do auratein jo aaqil aur baaligh hon.
Mahar-e-Fatimi ki miqdar kya hai?
500 dirham chandi (taqreeban 1.53 kg chandi) jiski qeemat bazar ke mutabiq hoti hai.
Kya bina walima ke nikah sahih hai?
Nikah sahih ho jata hai, magar walima chhorne se sunnat-e-muakkadah chhoot jati hai.
Gussa me shohar agar talaq ki dhamki de to?
Dhamki se talaq nahi hoti magar talaq ke alfaaz zabaan par lana aag se khelne ke barabar hai.
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