it is a type of enjoyment, so it is like a kiss. Al-Qadi said: It is possible that this is based on the establishment of the prohibition of marriage (tahrim al-musahara) through this, regarding which there are two narrations, so there are two views regarding the completion of the dower through it: One of them is that the dower is completed by it, due to what al-Daraqutni (14) narrated from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Thawban, who said: The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: "Whoever uncovers a woman's veil and looks at her, the dower becomes mandatory, whether he has had intercourse with her or not." And because it is a touch (masis), so it falls under his saying: "before you have touched them" (15). And because it is an enjoyment of his wife, the dower is completed by it, just as with intercourse. The other view is that the dower is not completed by it, and this is the statement of the majority of jurists; because His saying, the Almighty: "touched them," refers outwardly to intercourse, and the requirement of His saying: "before you have touched them," is that the dower is not completed for anyone other than the one who had intercourse with her, and the waiting period (idda) does not become mandatory upon her. Its general application was abandoned in the case of the one who is in seclusion with her, due to the consensus reported from the Companions, so it remains regarding what is besides that upon the requirement of its general application.

Section: If he pushes his wife, causing her to lose her virginity, then divorces her before intercourse, there is nothing upon him except half of her dower. Abu Yusuf and Muhammad said: The full dower is upon him, because he removed her virginity in a valid marriage, so the full dower is upon him, just as if he had had intercourse with her. Our argument is the saying of Allah, the Almighty: "And if you divorce them before you have touched them and you have already specified for them an obligation, then [give them] half of what you have specified" (15). She is a divorced woman before touching, so it is similar to the case where he did not push her, and because he destroyed that which he is entitled to destroy through the contract, so he does not guarantee it for other than him, just as if he destroyed the virginity of his bondwoman. It can be deduced that the full dower becomes mandatory for her, because Ahmad said: If an outsider does that, the dower is upon him. So in the case where the husband does it, it is more appropriate, for that which makes the dower mandatory initially is more entitled to establish the dower (16). Ahmad stated explicitly regarding one who