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End dowry & extravagance
Eradicate the dowry system and the lavish, ruinous spending forced upon brides' families at weddings across the Indian subcontinent.
A single-line mission, carried city to city across the subcontinent: to end the dowry system and the ruinous extravagance of weddings — and the poverty, injustice and violence that follow in their wake.
We believe poverty is the mother of most social evils — and the prevailing wedding system is the root of that poverty. Removing it comes before any other social, educational or political reform.
Eradicate the dowry system and the lavish, ruinous spending forced upon brides' families at weddings across the Indian subcontinent.
End what follows: poverty, destitution, unemployment, domestic violence, vanity and pomp — the consequences that trap families for generations.
Return to teachings that uphold justice, human dignity, women's rights, gender justice, equality and peace — the true Sunnat-e-Nikah.
“Boycott and reject the invitation of every wedding where the bride's parents are compelled to spend by hook or by crook.”
The dowry system is the leading cause of domestic violence, suicides, separations and the court cases that follow. The families who hoard dowry are often the same ones who refuse to pay it — and the harm passes from one generation of women to the next.
Around 95% of poor and middle-class families never escape that condition, because lifelong savings are spent not on building a future, but on a single wedding. We work to break the loop at its source.
From lecture halls to street corners — persuading the youth, uniting the scholars, and carrying the message to every city.
Public meetings, colleges, universities and madarsas across India — targeting the youth, where change begins.
Preparing a new generation of orators to carry the anti-dowry message forward in their own communities.
Organising elocution and essay competitions to make young minds wrestle with the issue themselves.
Bringing scholars of every school of thought to speak unanimously against dowry-ridden weddings.
Corner meetings, door-to-door visits, posters and hand-bills to spread the campaign street by street.
Themed public seminars plus fortnightly articles syndicated through UNI to newspapers nationwide.
Written across Urdu, English, Telugu, Hindi and Bengali — available free on socioreforms.com.
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80 FAQs on the wedding system · Urdu
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Born in Hyderabad in 1956, Dr. Aleem Khan Falaki built the anti-dowry mission alongside three decades running his own business in Jeddah. He calls the campaign the “jihad of this era” — arguing that dowry is the root of nearly every other social evil.
He holds a PhD in Social Work from Maulana Azad National Urdu University — his thesis on the marginalisation of women in Muslim society — and a diploma in marriage counselling from Leicester, UK. He is also a published Urdu poet who recites at mushairas.
Campaign speakers: Dr. Aleem Khan Falaki · Azmatullah Khan · Abdul Baari Hussaini
Refuse to attend — or fund — any wedding built on dowry and excess. Change begins with one honest "no".
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