Why is an Islamic prenup beneficial for women specifically?

A prenup is beneficial for women for a number of reasons. Number one is for mahr.

If you do not get a prenuptial agreement, you cannot enforce your maher contract.

The nikahnama, that one piece of paper that you sign on the day of the nikah is usually not enforceable.

It does not follow the factors of a prenuptial agreement. There's no financial disclosure. There's not attorneys on both sides. It's done under duress. Everybody's dressed up. Everybody's there. People have flown in from all over the world to attend your wedding. And obviously, if you don't sign that, it's going to look really, really bad.

And there's gonna be a lot of pressure on you. So that's the first thing is that you want a prenup to enforce your mahr.

Number two is you want to make sure that you have a prenup so that you don't ever end up having to pay your husband alimony. The reality is that many of our sisters are doing really well financially.

And make as much money as their husband or maybe even more money than their husband.

So you do not want a circumstance in which you will have to pay your husband maintenance or alimony or a situation where you're going to have to divide your property, your assets, your bank account, your retirement account.

And so we have to look at this from the modern perspective that majority of marriages, or many marriages, I should say, the husband and the wife are both working, and if the wife wants to protect her mahr, her property, and her alimony, then you have no choice but to get a prenuptial agreement.