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Originally Posted by Salika
It doesn't have to be though.. the shaykh can just say "the amount given" or whatever. I purposely did not want mine announced, the only people that need to know the mahr are the 2 witnesses. The shaykh doesn't even have to know.
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That's what the savvy imams do--refer to the "agreed upon amount." But there are some maulvis (like the one who does our family nikahs), and he gets rather angry if you ask him to keep it secret. To him, it's part of the "publicizing of the Nikah. Full stop."
